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Changing Regions

  1. Log in to AWS, and in the top right-hand corner of the home page you should see a location.
    Regions

  2. Click the dropdown. All regions are now supported.

    * There may be regions which do not support t2.micro. Make sure you select t3.micro in the deployment parameters or stack creation will fail

    Known Regions
    Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1 does not support t2.micro and thus, aws offers t3.micro for free tier usage.

  3. Pick whichever you are closest to, but even if you are not super close to any of these regions it should still run perfectly fine. If there is demand for a specific region I can always add it later.

Creating Key Pairs

The only manual step on the AWS side will be creating an SSH keypair. If you already have a keypair created you can skip to the CloudFormation Instructions.

  1. Login to AWS
  2. From the AWS Management Console, search and select “EC2” from the “AWS Services” dropdown.
    EC2
  3. On the left-hand side, locate and click the “Key Pairs” option.
    Key Pairs
  4. In the upper right-hand corner of the “Key Pairs” menu click “Create key pair”.
  5. Enter a name for the keypair.
  6. Select pem or ppk
    If you don’t know what these are, choose pem as it can always be converted to ppk later very easily.
  7. The keypair file should automatically download. Keep this file safe, and do not share it to anyone.

Continue on to the CloudFormation Instructions.

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