AWS SysOps - Lab Guide
AWS SysOps - Lab Guide
Lab Guide
Note: The screenshots used in Step 1 are only for your reference. Your LMS may look
different depending on your course content.
● You will see the course TOC page. Click on PRACTICE LABS.
● A new window will open. Read the instructions and click on the LAUNCH LAB button.
This will launch the practice labs for this course.
● In the next window, select AWS Web Console and click on the Auth URL, which will
direct you to the Amazon console in a new browser tab.
● You will be able to access the required services and resources in this console.
Step 2: Using different services in the Amazon console
● Keep in mind the following guidelines while making use of the required services in the
AWS console:
o Set the region to us-east-1 or us-east-2. Other regions may result in failure for
most actions
o Use Standard, GP2 EBS volume type and set the size less than or equal to 30
GB
o Use db.t2.micro RDS database class while creating RDS instances
o All the services required for this course are enabled in your lab.
o You can use both t2.micro and t3.micro types of EC2 instances.
Lightsail will be open in a new tab when the service menu is selected in AWS
Console
Lightsail page will not have region selection at the top just like the other AWS
Services. Region section is present when the trying to launch a Lightsail resource.
Refer to screenshot “1. Lightsail-Change-Region” attached
Lightsail will work only in us-east-1 & us-east-2 region as per the policy definition.
Select one of these allowed regions. Refer to screenshot “2. Lightsail-Select-Region”
attached
When the other regions are selected, validation will fail and will show a message like
in the screenshot “3. Lightsail-Error-Incorrect-Region-Selected” attached