Setting Up an EC2 Instance and Cloud Watch Alarm

Tasks

1. Launch EC2 Instance: Set up an EC2 instance named datacenter-ec2 using a suitable Ubuntu AMI.

2. Create CloudWatch Alarm: Set up a CloudWatch alarm named datacenter-alarm with these details:

   • Statistic: Average

   • Metric: CPU Utilization

   • Threshold: >= 90% for one consecutive 5-minute period.

   • Alarm Actions: Notify datacenter-sns-topic.

Steps

1. Launch instance

   

2. Create a default VPC

   

   VPC → Your VPCs → Create default VPC

   

3. You successfully created vpc-0e139ab7aa6d8c882.

4. 

   Now, time to launch the instance

5. 

   Instance is running now.

   

6. Verify SNS Topic

   Amazon → SNS → Topics

   

7. Select the instance → Actions → Monitor and troubleshoot → Manage CloudWatch Alarms

8. 

   Name the alarm and mention alarm notification, datacenter-sns-topic.

   

9. Create now.

10. 

    Created CloudWatch alarm: datacenter-alarm

11. 

    

    Boom! We have set up an EC2 instance and configured a CloudWatch alarm.

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