How to Provision EC2 Instances

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How to Provision EC2 Instances

Before you provision Amazon EC2 instances, verify that you have configured the key pair used to get the password for this instance. See also Configure and Validate the Amazon EC2 Server. If the instance uses the built-in password, make sure that the password is set to 'ServerAuto123'.

Follow these steps:

Right-click Data Center or Amazon EC2 Instances in the Explore tree and select Provisioning, Provision Amazon EC2 Instance.
The Provision Amazon EC2 Instance wizard opens.
Follow the instructions of the wizard to provision the 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.