Create Public instance

1. Go to EC2 service management console

• Click Instances.
• Click Launch instances.

2. At the Name and tags section.

• Fill the Name field with labBastionHost01 value.
• Fill the Number of instances with 1 value.

3. At the Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image) section.

• Click on Instance type Ubuntu.
• Choose Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type on Amazon Machine Image (AMI) field.
• Leave the rest as default.

4. At the Instance type section.

• Choose t2.micro Instance type.

5. At the Key pair (login) section.

• Click on the Create new key pair.
• At the Create key pair popup.
  • Fill the Key pair name field with labBastionHostSSHKey01 value.
  • Leave the rest as default.
  • Click Create key pair button.

6. At the Network settings section.

• Click the Edit button.
• At the Edit sections.

  You need to choose labPublicSubnet01 subnet which we allow Enable auto-assign public IPv4 address on that subnet when creating VPC before.

  • Choose labVPC01 on VPC - required field.
  • Choose labPublicSubnet01 on Subnet field.
  • Choose Enable on Auto-assign public IP field.
  • Choose Select existing security group on Firewall (security groups) field.
  • Choose labBastionHostSG01 on Common security groups field.
  • Click Launch Instance button.

7. Click View all instances to return to the list of EC2 instances.

Next, we will configure our EC2 linux bastion host.