How to Provision EC2 Instances

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How to Provision EC2 Instances

In CA Server Automation user interface, use the following right-click popup wizard to provision EC2 instances: Provisioning, Provision Amazon EC2 Instance. The following table provides additional information.

User Interface	Problem	Solution
Instance Type	SOAP Error: "The requested instance type's architecture (i386) does not match the architecture in the manifest for <ami_name> (x86_64)." You used a 64-bit image on a small instance type.	Create a large instance type for the 64-bit image.
	SOAP Error: "AMIs with an instance-store root device are not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'." You used a t1.micro instance type on a non-EBS AMI. Amazon does not support this configuration.	Create the t1.micro instance with an EBS AMI.

User Interface

Problem

Solution

Instance Type

SOAP Error:
"The requested instance type's architecture (i386) does not match the architecture in the manifest for <ami_name> (x86_64)."

You used a 64-bit image on a small instance type.

Create a large instance type for the 64-bit image.

SOAP Error:

"AMIs with an instance-store root device are not supported for the instance type 't1.micro'."

You used a t1.micro instance type on a non-EBS AMI. Amazon does not support this configuration.

Create the t1.micro instance with an EBS AMI.