- AWS Regions and Availability Zones
- Elastic Search cluster should be setup in one region and using multiple availability zones
- EC2 t2.medium instances with Ubuntu 16.04, could have been any Linux Distribution
- Root access via ssh using public/private key
- For Windows user please download putty
- For Mac and Linux users - ssh is available via terminal window
- If you don't have private/public key pair available follow instructions for Windows or for Mac
- Email public key to [email protected] to configure your access
- You can also use private ssh key emailed to you before the course
- How to import private key using Putty
- Setting permissions on Linux/MacOs:
chmod 600 /path/to/private-key/file
- Another option is to use Secure Shell Chrome Extension to launch in-browser ssh