Configuring Elastic Block Store EBS Volumes - Snapshot

Rajeev Reddy Nareddula 1/21/2024

Click “EC2”.
Click “Launch Instance”.
Select “Windows Server 2016 Base”.
Select “t2.micro” (or required).
Click “Next”.
Leave default settings and click “Next”.
Leave default settings and click “Next”.
Key as “Name” and Value as “Windows 2016 EBS” (or relevant).
Click “Next”.
Create a new security called “Mumbai Sec Group” (or related).
Click “Review and Launch”.
Leave default settings and click “Launch”.
If have existing key choose an existing key pair and select the Key pair. Other wise you need to
create an new key pair. Click “ I acknowledge”.
Click “launch Instance”.
Click view the instance.
Server is getting ready, wait up to 2/2 status checks.
Click “Actions”
Click “Get Password”.
Click “Choose File”.
Locate the “Eveningaws.pem” file (or created one).
Click “Open”.
Click “Decrypt Password”.
You have got the password successfully.
Type mstsc in run box, then type the Ip address of the server.

Now we need the modify the volume in AWS console.

After checks and work

Go to Volume, click “Create Snapshot”.
Type Name as “SansboundAMI” and Description as “Sansbound AMI” (or as you wish)
Snapshot creation has been started.
Click snapshot menu, now snapshot is completed.
Now we need to create an image by using the snapshot.
Click “create image”
Type name as SansboundAMI (given)
Description as SansboundAMI (given)
And Select Hardware-assisted virtualization
Then click “Create”.
Go to AMIs, able to see that image is available.
Go to instances, Click “Launch instance”.
Click “My AMIs” then select Sansbound_AMI (choosen/given).
Select “t2.micro” (or required).
Click “Next”.
Leave default settings and click “Next”.
Leave the default settings and click “next”.
Key as Name and Value s “Windows 2016 AMI”.
Select using existing group “Mumbai sec Group”.
In this stage you will get some message that we need to permit port 22 / ssh to access the system.
Please Leave that click “Continue”.
Click ”Launch”.
Select the eveningaws key and click “Launch instances”.
Now the server is ready.
Go to snapshots. Select snapshot and then right click. Delete.
Go to AMIs, Then you need to deregister the AMI image, it will shows some error.
Click “Deregister”.
It will take some time to remove.