Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A practical AWS tutorial that shows how to create a custom AMI from an EC2 instance, and how to create an Auto-Scaling group which uses that AMI.
Part 2 of a series on creating high-availability, auto-scaling, load-balanced infrastructure on the Amazon's Cloud (AWS).

FIRST VIDEO IN THIS SERIES: youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0g_ZEv2bw

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Stopping your instance
1:20 Create a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an EC2 instance
3:30 Intro to Amazon Auto-Scaling Groups (AWS ASGs)
5:29 How to set up an AWS Launch Configuration
8:49 How to configure an AWS security group for your Auto-Scaling group
10:02 Choose a keypair for your instances
10:24 How to create an AutoScaling Group (ASG) in Amazon AWS

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