Introduction
Amazon Machine Images (AMI) provide the information that will facilitate the generation of an instance. It serves as an application to create virtual machines. The AWS offering will allow Sisense customers to operate with effective redundancy and control.
Configure
The configuration provides the user a variety of different options to connect setup deployments including the option to select the region to host the virtual application.
After configuration select Continue to Launch
Launch
Confirm the configuration selections. It is necessary to provide the various types of deployments before launching the software. Users will need to create a key pair in EC2.
Select Create a key pair in EC2
Note the EC2 instance type will alter the power of the virtual machine to be launched.
Select Key Pair name and select Launch
AWS will confirm the deployment was a success
View Instance
Users can view the generated Instance through the AWS console portal
Create Image
The following process will create a snapshot of an EC2 instance. If the user launches an instance based off of an AMI the new instance will look like the instance that the AMI was based off of. Under the left panel select Instances, available Instances will populate the window to the right of the panel.
Select the desired instance and right click following the path Image -> Create Image
Select Create Image
View Image
Confirm the Image (snapshot) was created. Select AMIs under IMAGES on the left panel. Users should see the Image that was generated in the previous step.
