Amazon EC2 support

We can deploy ISAM to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment.

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides:

• Scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud
• Capability to deploy an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Deploying Security Verify Access to Amazon EC2 involves the following processes:

1. Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the appliance VHD image.
2. Launch an instance of the AMI in Amazon EC2.
3. To use the Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, configure the appliance to send statistical data to Amazon CloudWatch.

Complete these processes either manually or with an automated script. Obtain the deploy_isva_to_amazon_ec2.py script from the File Downloads page in the common > samples > deploy directory on a running appliance. To see script help, run the following command:

python deploy_isva_to_amazon_ec2.py --help

• Supported python versions are 2.79 and 3.4.3.
• This script has a dependency on the requests module.

For details about how to use the Amazon EC2 command line interface to launch an instance, see Launching an Instance Using the Amazon EC2 CLI.

• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file
  Upload the appliance VHD image to Amazon EC2 and create an AMI so that it can be deployed in Amazon EC2.
• Launching the appliance AMI
  Launch an instance of the appliance AMI to run the appliance in Amazon EC2.
• Post-installation activities
  After installing the appliance in Amazon EC2, complete these activities to enable data transmission to Amazon CloudWatch or change the port on which the LMI listens.

Parent topic: Virtual appliance tasks