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+#' @title `r lifecycle::badge("maturing")` Create an AWS EC2 launcher object.
+#' @export
+#' @family launchers
+#' @description Create an `R6` AWS EC2 launcher object.
+aws_launcher_ec2 <- function(
+  name = NULL,
+  verbose = FALSE,
+  access_key_id = "your-aws-access-key",
+  secret_access_key = "your-aws-secret-key",
+  ami_id = "your-aws-ec2-ami-ID",
+  instance_type = "t2.micro",
+  key_name = "your-ec2-key-pair",
+  keyfile = "your-private-key-file.pem"
+) {
+  name <- as.character(name %|||% paste("aws", sample(LETTERS, 5, replace = TRUE), collapse = ""))
+  launcher <- aws_class_launcher_ec2$new(
+    name = name,
+    verbose = verbose,
+    access_key_id = access_key_id,
+    secret_access_key = secret_access_key,
+    ami_id = ami_id,
+    instance_type = instance_type,
+    key_name = key_name,
+    keyfile = keyfile
+  )
+  launcher$validate()
+  launcher
+}
+
+#' @title `r lifecycle::badge("maturing")` AWS EC2 launcher class
+#' @export
+#' @family launchers
+#' @description `R6` class for the AWS EC2 launcher.
+aws_class_launcher_ec2 <- R6::R6Class(
+  classname = "aws_class_launcher_ec2",
+  inherit = crew::crew_class_launcher,
+  cloneable = FALSE,
+  public = list(
+    verbose = NULL,
+    access_key_id = NULL,
+    secret_access_key = NULL,
+    ami_id = NULL,
+    instance_type = NULL,
+    key_name = NULL,
+    keyfile = NULL,
+
+    ec2 = NULL,
+
+    initialize = function(name = NULL, verbose = NULL, access_key_id = NULL, secret_access_key = NULL, ami_id = NULL, instance_type = NULL, key_name = NULL, keyfile = NULL) {
+      super$initialize(name = name)
+      self$verbose <- verbose
+      self$access_key_id <- access_key_id
+      self$secret_access_key <- secret_access_key
+      self$ami_id <- ami_id
+      self$instance_type <- instance_type
+      self$key_name <- key_name
+      self$keyfile <- keyfile
+
+      self$ec2 <- paws::ec2(
+        config = list(
+          credentials = list(
+            creds = list(
+              access_key_id = self$access_key_id,
+              secret_access_key = self$secret_access_key
+            )
+          )
+        )
+      )
+    },
+
+    validate = function() {
+    super$validate()
+    # Add validation for the EC2 instance configuration.
+    crew::crew_assert(
+        self$ec2,
+        !is.null(.),
+        message = "EC2 instance is not properly configured."
+    )
+    },
+
+    launch_worker = function(call, name, launcher, worker, instance) {
+    # Fetch the running instances
+    instances <- self$ec2$describe_instances(
+        Filters = list(
+        list(
+            Name = "instance-state-name",
+            Values = c("running")
+        )
+        )
+    )
+    
+    if (length(instances$Reservations) > 0) {
+        # connect to an already running instance, I prefer this method as it will not need to spin up and download R
+        instance <- instances$Reservations[[1]]$Instances[[1]]
+    } else {
+
+        # Script to install R TODO[This will change based on AMI choice.. maybe just ask the user to provide?]
+        user_data <- '#!/bin/bash
+                sudo yum update -y
+                sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
+                sudo yum install -y R
+                sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y'
+        
+        # start a new instance
+        instance <- self$ec2$run_instances(
+        ImageId = "your-aws-ec2-ami-ID", # replace with your preferred AMI TODO[Ask Will about preferred AMI]
+        MinCount = 1,
+        MaxCount = 1,
+        InstanceType = "t2.micro", # replace with your preferred instance type TODO[Free tier for now, should this be dynamic]
+        KeyName = "your-ec2-key-pair" # I have a key pair, TODO[Ask Will about ]
+        UserData = base64enc::base64encode(charToRaw(user_data))
+        )
+        
+        Sys.sleep(60) # give it time to start [May take more than 60 seconds for it to spin up and download R, yikes]
+    }
+
+    session <- ssh::ssh_connect(
+        host = instance$PublicDnsName,
+        keyfile = "your-private-key-file.pem" #this may be a challenge for a new instance and user.. TODO[Ask Will about pem file]
+    )
+
+    ssh::ssh_exec_wait(session, command = paste("Rscript -e '", call, "'"))
+
+    return(list(instance = instance, session = session))
+    },
+
+    terminate_worker = function(handle) {
+    # Disconnect from the instance's SSH session
+    if (!is.null(handle$session)) {
+        ssh::ssh_disconnect(handle$session)
+    }
+
+    # Terminate the instance
+    if (!is.null(handle$instance)) {
+        self$ec2$terminate_instances(
+        InstanceIds = handle$instance$InstanceId
+        )
+    }
+    }
+