Exercise Setup

Aws ##

• 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 [e-mail] 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