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Creating a Custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
For this lab, you have been tasked to create a custom httpd AMI for a development team. Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to create a new AMI and launch new instances using it.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Launch a New EC2 Instance
Launch a new Amazon Linux 2 instance with an instance type of T3.micro.
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Challenge
Install httpd and Custom Message
Install httpd on the new instance, and add the message "A guru was here" to
/var/www/html/index.html
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Create a New AMI
Create a new AMI from the customized instance, and name the AMI Guru web.
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Challenge
Launch a New Instance Using the Custom AMI
Launch a new instance using the custom AMI you just created. Verify that httpd is running and that you see the custom message when you run
curl -s localhost
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