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This Quick Start reference deployment guide provides instructions for deploying {partner-product-name} on the AWS Cloud.

This Quick Start is for {partner-product-short-name} customers who use AWS to launch applications in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with built-in monitoring using the {partner-product-short-name} infrastructure agent.

The Quick Start does the following: 

* Automates the process of deploying and managing the {partner-product-short-name} infrastructure agent on EC2 instances across various operating systems and architectures.
* Controls which EC2 instances to include when installing the {partner-product-short-name} infrastructure agent by using a tag on the instance. The tag used to deploy the agent on the EC2 instances is named _+NR-Infrastructure+_ with a value of _+Install+_.
* Launches EC2 instances using a variety of methods, including:

** The launch instance wizard in the AWS Management Console
** An EC2 Auto Scaling group
** AWS CloudFormation templates
** AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
** AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
** AWS Software Development Kit (AWS SDK)

You can use these methods to launch the instance either using a standard or golden Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or third-party tools such as Terraform.

* Launches an AWS CloudFormation StackSet for installing the {partner-product-short-name} infrastructure agent across multiple Regions and accounts. 
* Provides the option to run the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) on demand, allowing you to automate the installation of the {partner-product-short-name} infrastructure agent on all EC2 instances. This option is especially useful when you want to monitor a large number of EC2 instances in your AWS accounts. 
* When using AWS Control Tower, provides the option to add the template to your Control Tower landing zone customization to automatically deploy the Quick Start every time you enroll a new account.
* Supports EC2 instances running in AWS Outposts.

For more information, see the following resources:

 * https://aws.amazon.com/ec2[Amazon EC2^]
 * https://newrelic.com/integrations/aws-ec2-integration[Amazon EC2 monitoring integration^]
 * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/LaunchingAndUsingInstances.html[Launch your EC2 instance^]
 * https://aws.amazon.com/console/[AWS Management Console^]
 * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/imagebuilder/latest/userguide/what-is-image-builder.html[What is EC2 Image Builder?^]
 * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/what-is-cfnstacksets.html[Working with AWS CloudFormation StackSets^]
 * https://aws.amazon.com/controltower/[AWS Control Tower^]
 * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/customize-landing-zone.html[Walkthrough: Customize Your AWS Control Tower Landing Zone^]
 * https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/[AWS Outposts^]
 * https://www.terraform.io/[Terraform^]