---
title: "Create a Workspace"
chapter: false
weight: 14
---

{{% notice warning %}}
The Cloud9 workspace should be built by an IAM user with Administrator privileges,
not the root account user. Please ensure you are logged in as an IAM user, not the root
account user.
{{% /notice %}}

{{% notice warning %}}
If you are at an AWS Hosted Event the Cloud 9 Environment is already built for you. Just open the existing IDE in the Cloud9 console.
{{% /notice %}}

{{% notice info %}}
A list of supported browsers for AWS Cloud9 is found [here]( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/browsers.html).
{{% /notice %}}


<!---
{{% notice info %}}
This workshop was designed to run in the **Oregon (us-west-2)** region. **Please don't
run in any other region.** Future versions of this workshop will expand region availability,
and this message will be removed.
{{% /notice %}}
-->

{{% notice tip %}}
Ad blockers, javascript disablers, and tracking blockers should be disabled for
the cloud9 domain, or connecting to the workspace might be impacted.
Cloud9 requires third-party-cookies. You can whitelist the [specific domains]( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/troubleshooting.html#troubleshooting-env-loading).
{{% /notice %}}

### Launch Cloud9 in your closest region:

{{< tabs name="Region" >}}
{{{< tab name="Oregon" include="us-west-2.md" />}}
{{{< tab name="Ireland" include="eu-west-1.md" />}}
{{{< tab name="Ohio" include="us-east-2.md" />}}
{{{< tab name="Singapore" include="ap-southeast-1.md" />}}
{{< /tabs >}}

- Select **Create environment**
- Name it **eksworkshop**, click Next.
- Choose **t3.small** for instance type, take all default values and click **Create environment**

When it comes up, customize the environment by:

- Closing the **Welcome tab**
![c9before](/images/prerequisites/cloud9-1.png)
- Opening a new **terminal** tab in the main work area
![c9newtab](/images/prerequisites/cloud9-2.png)
- Closing the lower work area
![c9newtab](/images/prerequisites/cloud9-3.png)
- Your workspace should now look like this
![c9after](/images/prerequisites/cloud9-4.png)

{{% notice info %}}
If you intend to run all the sections in this workshop, it will be useful to have more storage available for all the repositories and tests.
{{% /notice %}}

### Increase the disk size on the Cloud9 instance

{{% notice note %}}
The following command adds more disk space to the root volume of the EC2 instance that Cloud9 runs on. Once the command completes, we reboot the instance and it could take a minute or two for the IDE to come back online.
{{% /notice %}}

```bash
pip3 install --user --upgrade boto3
export instance_id=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id)
python -c "import boto3
import os
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError 
ec2 = boto3.client('ec2')
volume_info = ec2.describe_volumes(
    Filters=[
        {
            'Name': 'attachment.instance-id',
            'Values': [
                os.getenv('instance_id')
            ]
        }
    ]
)
volume_id = volume_info['Volumes'][0]['VolumeId']
try:
    resize = ec2.modify_volume(    
            VolumeId=volume_id,    
            Size=30
    )
    print(resize)
except ClientError as e:
    if e.response['Error']['Code'] == 'InvalidParameterValue':
        print('ERROR MESSAGE: {}'.format(e))"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    sudo reboot
fi

```