Aws Ec2 Setup

This handles the full EC2 setup workflow from security groups and IAM roles to instance launch and auto-scaling configuration. You get CLI commands for the basics, plus Terraform configs and user data scripts in the reference guides. Most useful when you're spinning up web servers, API backends, or batch processing infrastructure and need the standard security group rules, monitoring, and scaling setup. The examples cover the boring but critical stuff like limiting SSH access to your IP and attaching IAM roles instead of embedding credentials. It's fairly comprehensive for common EC2 patterns, though you'll still need to customize networking and storage for your specific workload.

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$ npx -y skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill aws-ec2-setup --agent claude-code

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Overview

Amazon EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Launch and configure virtual servers with complete control over networking, storage, and security settings. Scale automatically based on demand.

When to Use

Web application servers
Application backends and APIs
Batch processing and compute jobs
Development and testing environments
Containerized applications (ECS)
Kubernetes clusters (EKS)
Database servers
VPN and proxy servers

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Create security group
aws ec2 create-security-group \
  --group-name web-server-sg \
  --description "Web server security group" \
  --vpc-id vpc-12345678

# Add ingress rules
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id sg-0123456789abcdef0 \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 80 \
  --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id sg-0123456789abcdef0 \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 443 \
  --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

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