AWS CloudFormation Challenge

Challenge Instructions

Region: Be sure to use us-east-1 Region to create all the resources The requirements for the challenge will be given to you. Before you take on this challenge, we recommend that you review our hands-on Labs if you are not familiar with AWS Cloud. Challenge Duration: 60 minutes

How do you submit the challenge?

To validate that you have successfully completed the challenge and built the necessary infrastructure, click the Validate button. Status of validation Congratulations! You've successfully completed the challenge. Failed - This means that you have not completed the challenge.

After you have validated the challenge successfully, click on End Lab.

Cloud Challenge Details

This lab challenge will test your Amazon CloudFormation skills. A requirement will be presented to you and you must meet it with your Amazon CloudFormation knowledge and Amazon EC2 skills. The Lab Challenge will help you to understand real-world scenarios.

A company XYZ wants to deploy a new web app. They will need to upgrade the server from t2.micro or t2.medium to improve performance. Next, they will add HTTP in security group inbound rule that is accessible on Port 80. This will remove the existing SSH entry, which is accessible via port 22, and then update the output. It should display the private IP. You now have to update CloudFormation using the Change set. Designer can be used to create a Change Set.

Copy the S3 Object URL of EC2InstanceInput.template file present in S3 bucket starting with name whizlabs.

Create Cloudformation stack using S3 Object URL of EC2InstanceInput.template file with below details

EC2 Instance -- t2.micro

SSH Port open.

Wait until CloudFormation stack status changes from CREATE_COMPLETE to CREATE_COMPLETE

Upgrading the Cloudformation Stack

Increase server capacity, from t2.micro up to t2.medium

SSH Port Access Restrictions

Provide HTTP Port Access

Show Private IP instead.

Check if your server has increased in capacity by executing the Changes.

To complete the challenge, click on Validate