Create EC2 Instance with tag

Create EC2 Instance with Tags

1. Visit AWS Management Console, in the search bar find EC2

Note: In this workshop, we will use the N. Virginia region (us-east-1). If you want to use another Region, be sure to move the Region back to the Region you want to use when creating workshop-related resources.

2. In the EC2 console, click Launch instances

3. For the instance name, enter ec2-instance-1

4. Click Add additional tags to proceed with adding tags.

5. Enter the key and value in the table below:

   Key	Value	Resource Types
   Owner	YourName	• Instances • Volumes • Network interfaces
   Service	YourService	• Instances • Volumes
   Environment	Test	• Instances • Volumes

Tip: You can download the best-practices guide to implementing an effective AWS resource tagging strategy below.

6. For the operating system:

   • Select Quick Start
   • Choose Amazon Linux
   • Select Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.

7. For compute resources:

   • Select t3.micro instance type
   • Key pair: choose Proceed without a key pair (Not recommended)

8. Choose Edit to configure network:

9. Disable Auto-assign public IP. Other settings we leave it at default.

10. Repeat steps 1 - 6 to create additional EC2 Instance named ec2-instance-2 with the following Tags:

    Key	Value	Resource Types
    Owner	YourName	• Instances • Volumes • Network interfaces
    Service	YourService	• Instances • Volumes
    Environment	UAT	• Instances • Volumes

11. Click Launch to proceed with creating your EC2 instance.

12. Verify ec2-instance-1 and ec2-instance-2 created successfully .

13. Click on the instances we just created.

    • Click the Tags tab to check the created tags.

Next, we will modify these tags.