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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
User Guide for Windows Instances
 * What is Amazon EC2?
 * Set up
 * Get started tutorial
 * Best practices
 * Amazon Machine Images
    * Boot modes
       * Launch an instance
       * AMI boot mode parameter
       * Instance type boot mode
       * Instance boot mode
       * Operating system boot mode
       * Set AMI boot mode
       * UEFI variables
       * UEFI Secure Boot
          * How UEFI Secure Boot works
          * Launch an instance with UEFI Secure Boot support
          * Verify whether an instance is enabled for UEFI Secure Boot
   
    * AWS Windows AMIs
       * Configure your Windows AMI for faster launching
       * Managed AWS Windows AMIs
       * Specialized Windows AMIs
          * SQL Server AMIs
          * AMIs for STIG compliance
      
       * AWS Windows AMI version history
   
    * Find a Windows AMI
    * Shared AMIs
       * Find shared AMIs
       * Make an AMI public
       * Share an AMI with organizations or OUs
       * Share an AMI with specific AWS accounts
       * Use bookmarks
       * Best practices for shared Windows AMIs
   
    * Paid AMIs
    * AMI lifecycle
       * Create a custom Windows AMI
       * Copy an AMI
       * Store and restore an AMI
       * Deprecate an AMI
       * Deregister your AMI
       * Recover AMIs from the Recycle Bin
       * Automate the EBS-backed AMI lifecycle
   
    * Use encryption with EBS-backed AMIs
    * Monitor AMI events
    * Understand AMI billing
       * AMI billing fields
       * Find AMI billing information
       * Verify AMI charges on your bill

 * Instances
    * Windows instances
    * Instance types
       * General purpose
          * Burstable performance instances
             * Key concepts
             * Unlimited mode
                * Concepts
                * Examples
            
             * Standard mode
                * Concepts
                * Examples
            
             * Work with burstable performance instances
             * Monitor your CPU credits
      
       * Compute optimized
       * Memory optimized
       * Storage optimized
       * Accelerated computing
          * Install NVIDIA drivers
          * Install AMD drivers
          * Activate NVIDIA GRID Virtual Applications
          * Optimize GPU settings
      
       * Find an instance type
       * Get recommendations
       * Change the instance type
          * Compatibility
          * Troubleshoot
   
    * Instance purchasing options
       * On-Demand Instances
       * Reserved Instances
          * Regional and zonal Reserved Instances (scope)
          * Types of Reserved Instances (offering classes)
          * How Reserved Instances are applied
          * Use your Reserved Instances
          * How you are billed
          * Buy Reserved Instances
          * Sell in the Reserved Instance Marketplace
          * Modify Reserved Instances
          * Exchange Convertible Reserved Instances
          * Reserved Instance quotas
      
       * Scheduled Instances
       * Spot Instances
          * Best practices
          * How Spot Instances work
          * Spot Instance pricing history
          * Savings
          * Spot Instance requests
             * Example launch specifications
         
          * Spot request status
          * Rebalance recommendations
          * Spot Instance interruptions
             * Reasons for interruption
             * Interruption behavior
             * Stop
             * Hibernate
             * Terminate
             * Prepare for interruptions
             * Spot Instance interruption notices
             * Find interrupted Spot Instances
             * Determine whether Amazon EC2 terminated a Spot Instance
             * Billing
         
          * Spot placement score
          * Spot Instance data feed
          * Spot Instance limits
          * Burstable performance instances
      
       * Dedicated Hosts
          * Work with Dedicated Hosts
          * Work with shared Dedicated Hosts
          * Host recovery
          * Track configuration changes
      
       * Dedicated Instances
          * Work with Dedicated Instances
      
       * On-Demand Capacity Reservations
          * Capacity Reservation pricing and billing
          * Work with Capacity Reservations
          * Work with Capacity Reservation groups
          * Capacity Reservations in cluster placement groups
          * Capacity Reservations in Local Zones
          * Capacity Reservations in Wavelength Zones
          * Capacity Reservations on AWS Outposts
          * Work with shared Capacity Reservations
          * Capacity Reservation Fleets
             * Capacity Reservation Fleet concepts
             * Work with Capacity Reservation Fleets
             * Example configurations
             * Using Service-Linked Roles
         
          * CloudWatch metrics
   
    * Instance lifecycle
       * Launch
          * Launch using the launch instance wizard
             * Old launch instance wizard
         
          * Launch using a launch template
          * Launch an instance from an existing instance
          * Use an AWS Marketplace instance
      
       * Connect
       * Stop and start
       * Hibernate
          * Overview
          * Prerequisites
          * Limitations
          * Enable hibernation for an instance
          * Hibernate an instance
          * Start a hibernated instance
          * Troubleshoot
      
       * Reboot
       * Retire
       * Terminate
       * Recover
   
    * Configure instances
       * EC2Launch v2
          * Overview
          * Install
          * Migrate
          * Manage
          * Verify
          * Subscribe
          * Settings
          * Troubleshoot
          * Version histories
      
       * EC2Launch
          * Install EC2Launch
          * Version history
      
       * EC2Config service
          * Install EC2Config
          * Version history
          * Troubleshoot
      
       * PV drivers
          * Upgrade PV drivers
          * Troubleshoot PV drivers
      
       * AWS NVMe drivers
       * Optimize CPU options
          * Rules for specifying CPU options
          * CPU cores and threads per CPU core per instance type
          * Specify CPU options for your instance
          * View the CPU options for your instance
      
       * Set the time
       * Set the password
       * Add Windows components
       * Configure a secondary private IPv4 Address
       * Run commands at launch
       * Instance metadata and user data
          * Use IMDSv2
          * Configure the instance metadata options
          * Retrieve instance metadata
          * Work with instance user data
          * Retrieve dynamic data
          * Instance metadata categories
          * Instance identity documents
             * Verify using the PKCS7 signature
             * Verify using the base64-encoded signature
             * Verify using the RSA-2048 signature
      
       * SQL Server Clustering in EC2
   
    * Upgrade Windows instances
       * Perform an in-place upgrade
       * Perform an automated upgrade
       * Migrate to latest generation instance types
          * Migrate to Xen from Nitro
      
       * Migrate Microsoft SQL Server from Windows to Linux
          * Setting up
          * Get started
      
       * Troubleshoot an upgrade
   
    * Identify instances
    * Set up a Windows HPC cluster

 * Fleets
    * EC2 Fleet
       * EC2 Fleet request types
          * EC2 Fleet 'instant' type
      
       * EC2 Fleet configuration strategies
          * Plan an EC2 Fleet
          * Allocation strategies for Spot Instances
          * Attribute-based instance type selection
          * On-Demand backup
          * Capacity Rebalancing
          * Maximum price overrides
          * Control spending
          * Instance weighting
      
       * Work with EC2 Fleets
   
    * Spot Fleet
       * Spot Fleet request types
       * Spot Fleet configuration strategies
          * Plan a Spot Fleet request
          * Allocation strategy for Spot Instances
          * Attribute-based instance type selection
          * On-Demand in Spot Fleet
          * Capacity Rebalancing
          * Spot price overrides
          * Control spending
          * Instance weighting
      
       * Work with Spot Fleets
       * CloudWatch metrics for Spot Fleet
       * Automatic scaling for Spot Fleet
          * Target tracking scaling policies
          * Step scaling policies
          * Scheduled scaling
   
    * Monitor fleet events
       * EC2 Fleet event types
       * Spot Fleet event types
       * Create EventBridge rules
          * For EC2 Fleet events
          * For Spot Fleet events
   
    * Tutorials
       * Tutorial: Use EC2 Fleet with instance weighting
       * Tutorial: Use EC2 Fleet with On-Demand as the primary capacity
       * Tutorial: Launch On-Demand Instances using targeted Capacity
         Reservations
       * Tutorial: Use Spot Fleet with instance weighting
   
    * Example configurations
       * EC2 Fleet example configurations
       * Spot Fleet example configurations
   
    * Fleet quotas

 * Elastic Graphics
    * Work with Elastic Graphics
    * Elastic Graphics maintenance
    * Use CloudWatch metrics to monitor Elastic Graphics
    * Troubleshoot

 * Monitor
    * Automated and manual monitoring
    * Best practices for monitoring
    * Monitor the status of your instances
       * Instance status checks
       * Scheduled events
          * Define event windows for scheduled events
   
    * Monitor your instances using CloudWatch
       * Enable detailed monitoring
       * List available metrics
       * Get statistics for metrics
          * Get statistics for a specific instance
          * Aggregate statistics across instances
          * Aggregate statistics by Auto Scaling group
          * Aggregate statistics by AMI
      
       * Graph metrics
       * Create an alarm
       * Create alarms that stop, terminate, reboot, or recover an instance
   
    * Automate Amazon EC2 with EventBridge
    * Log API calls with AWS CloudTrail
    * Monitor your .NET and SQL Server applications

 * Networking
    * Regions and Zones
    * Instance IP addressing
       * Multiple IP addresses
   
    * Instance hostname types
    * Bring your own IP addresses
    * Assigning prefixes
       * Work with prefixes
   
    * Elastic IP addresses
    * Network interfaces
       * Best practices for configuring network interfaces
       * Scenarios for network interfaces
       * Requester-managed network interfaces
   
    * Network bandwidth
    * Enhanced networking
       * Enhanced networking: ENA
       * Enhanced networking: Intel 82599 VF
       * Operating system optimizations
       * Network performance metrics
   
    * Placement groups
    * Network MTU
    * Virtual private clouds
    * Ports and Protocols
    * EC2-Classic
       * ClassicLink
       * Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC

 * Security
    * Infrastructure security
    * Resilience
    * Data protection
    * Identity and access management
       * IAM policies
          * Policy structure
          * Tag resources during creation
          * Control access to EC2 resources using resource tags
          * Example policies for CLI or SDK
          * Example policies for the console
      
       * AWS managed policies
       * IAM roles
       * Network access
   
    * Key pairs
       * Create key pairs
       * Tag a public key
       * Describe public keys
       * Delete a public key
       * Verify keys
   
    * Security groups
       * Security group rules
       * Connection tracking
       * Default and custom security groups
       * Work with security groups
       * Security group rules for different use cases
   
    * AWS PrivateLink
    * Configuration management
    * Update management
    * Change management
    * Compliance validation
    * Audit and accountability
    * NitroTPM
       * Considerations
       * Prerequisites
       * Verify whether an AMI is enabled for NitroTPM
       * Enable or stop using NitroTPM on an instance

 * Storage
    * Amazon EBS
       * EBS volumes
          * EBS volume types
          * Size and configuration constraints
          * Create a volume
          * Attach a volume to an instance
          * Make a volume available for use
          * View volume details
          * Replace a volume
          * Restore a root volume
          * Monitor the status of your volumes
          * Detach a volume from an instance
          * Delete a volume
      
       * EBS snapshots
          * Create snapshots
          * Create application-consistent snapshots
             * Before you begin
             * Get started
             * Create Snapshots Using the Command Line
             * Restore volumes from VSS-enabled EBS snapshots
             * Version history
         
          * Delete a snapshot
          * Copy a snapshot
          * Archive snapshots
             * Guidelines and best practices for archiving snapshots
             * Work with snapshot archiving
             * Monitor snapshot archiving
         
          * View snapshot information
          * Share a snapshot
          * Recover snapshots from the Recycle Bin
          * Local snapshots on Outposts
          * Amazon EBS direct APIs
             * IAM permissions for EBS direct APIs
             * Use EBS direct APIs
                * Read snapshots
                * Write snapshots
                * Use encryption
                * Use Signature Version 4 signing
                * Use checksums
                * Idempotency for StartSnapshot API
                * Error retries
                * Optimize performance
            
             * Interface VPC endpoints
             * Log API calls with AWS CloudTrail
             * Frequently asked questions
         
          * Automate the snapshot lifecycle
      
       * Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
          * Automate snapshot lifecycles
          * Automate AMI lifecycles
          * Automate cross-account snapshot copies
          * View, modify, and delete lifecycle policies
          * AWS Identity and Access Management
             * AWS managed policies
             * IAM service roles
             * Permissions for IAM users
             * Permissions for encryption
         
          * Monitor the lifecycle of snapshots and AMIs
             * Monitor your policies using CloudWatch Events
             * Monitor your policies using Amazon CloudWatch
      
       * EBS data services
          * Elastic volumes
             * Requirements
             * Request volume modifications
             * Monitor modifications
             * Extend a file system
         
          * EBS encryption
          * Fast snapshot restore
      
       * EBS volumes and NVMe
       * EBS optimization
       * EBS performance
          * I/O characteristics and monitoring
          * Initialize volumes
          * RAID configuration
          * Benchmark EBS volumes
      
       * EBS CloudWatch metrics
       * EBS CloudWatch events
       * EBS quotas
   
    * Instance store
       * Add instance store volumes
       * SSD instance store volumes
   
    * File storage
       * Amazon S3
       * Amazon EFS
       * Amazon FSx
   
    * Instance volume limits
    * Root device volume
    * Device names
    * Block device mappings
    * Map disks to volumes
    * Deploy Storage Spaces Direct

 * Resources and tags
    * Recycle Bin
       * Considerations
       * Required IAM permissions
       * Work with retention rules
       * Work with resources in the Recycle Bin
       * Monitoring Recycle Bin using AWS CloudTrail
   
    * Resource locations
    * Resource IDs
    * List and filter your resources
    * Tag your resources
    * Service quotas
    * Usage reports

 * Troubleshoot
    * Common issues
    * Common messages
    * Troubleshoot launch issues
    * Connect to your instance
    * Troubleshoot an unreachable instance
    * Reset a lost or expired Windows administrator password
       * Reset using EC2Launch v2
       * Reset Using EC2Config
       * Reset using EC2Launch
   
    * Stop your instance
    * Terminate your instance
    * Troubleshoot Sysprep
    * Troubleshoot ENA Windows driver
    * EC2Rescue for Windows Server
       * Use the GUI
       * Use the command line
       * Use Systems Manager
   
    * EC2 Serial Console
       * Configure access to the EC2 Serial Console
       * Connect to the EC2 Serial Console
       * Terminate an EC2 Serial Console session
       * Troubleshoot your instance using the EC2 Serial Console
          * Use SAC to troubleshoot your Windows instance
   
    * Send a diagnostic interrupt

 * AWS Systems Manager for Microsoft System Center VMM
    * Set up
    * Manage EC2 Instances
    * Import Your VM
    * Troubleshoot

 * AWS Management Pack
    * Download
    * Deploy
       * Step 1: Install the AWS Management Pack
       * Step 2: Configure the watcher node
       * Step 3: Create an AWS Run As account
       * Step 4: Run the Add Monitoring wizard
       * Step 5: Configure ports and endpoints
   
    * Use
    * Upgrade
    * Uninstall
    * Troubleshoot

 * Related information
 * Document history

Install the latest version of EC2Launch - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
AWSDocumentationAmazon EC2User Guide for Windows Instances


INSTALL THE LATEST VERSION OF EC2LAUNCH

PDFRSS

Use the following procedure to download and install the latest version of
EC2Launch on your instances.

To download and install the latest version of EC2Launch

 1. If you have already installed and configured EC2Launch on an instance, make
    a backup of the EC2Launch configuration file. The installation process does
    not preserve changes in this file. By default, the file is located in the
    C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Config directory.

 2. Download EC2-Windows-Launch.zip to a directory on the instance.

 3. Download install.ps1 to the same directory where you downloaded
    EC2-Windows-Launch.zip.

 4. Run install.ps1

 5. If you made a backup of the EC2Launch configuration file, copy it to the
    C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Config directory.

To download and install the latest version of EC2Launch using PowerShell

If you have already installed and configured EC2Launch on an instance, make a
backup of the EC2Launch configuration file. The installation process does not
preserve changes in this file. By default, the file is located in the
C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Config directory.

To install the latest version of EC2Launch using PowerShell, run the following
commands from a PowerShell window

mkdir $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch
$Url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/EC2Launch/latest/EC2-Windows-Launch.zip"
$DownloadZipFile = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch\" + $(Split-Path -Path $Url -Leaf)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -OutFile $DownloadZipFile
$Url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/EC2Launch/latest/install.ps1"
$DownloadZipFile = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch\" + $(Split-Path -Path $Url -Leaf)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -OutFile $DownloadZipFile
& $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch\install.ps1

Verify the installation by checking C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch.

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