Custom AMI Amazon EC2 with AWS CloudFormation

1. Launch AWS CloudShell

• Refer to AWS CloudShell

2. Create an Amazon EC2

1. Get an AWS CloudFormation stack template body

wget https://github.com/t2yijaeho/Custom-AMI-EC2-with-CloudFormation/raw/matia/Template/EC2-MigVM.yaml

• For Spot instance

wget https://github.com/t2yijaeho/Custom-AMI-EC2-with-CloudFormation/raw/matia/Template/EC2-MigSpot.yaml

2. Get your local machine public IP address in the browser

• Your public IP address

3. Create an AWS CloudFormation stack

• Change <My Custom Image ID> to your Custom Amazon Machine Image ID

• Change <My IP> to your local machine IP address (ParameterValue must be in CIDR block)

aws cloudformation create-stack \
    --stack-name MigrationVM \
    --template-body file://./EC2-MigVM.yaml \
    --parameters ParameterKey=CustomImageID,ParameterValue="<My Custom Image ID>" \
    ParameterKey=LocalLocation,ParameterValue="<My IP>/32"

aws cloudformation create-stack \
    --stack-name MigrationVM \
    --template-body file://./EC2-MigSpot.yaml \
    --parameters ParameterKey=CustomImageID,ParameterValue="<My Custom Image ID>" \
    ParameterKey=LocalLocation,ParameterValue="<My IP>/32"

4. AWS CloudFormation returns following output

{
"StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-abcd-x:123456789012:stack/MigrationVM/b4d0f5e0-d4c2-11ec-9529-06edcc65f112"
}

5. Monitor the progress by the stack's events in AWS management console