Securing and Managing Linux Web Servers with EBS Operations on AWS

Info

Problem Statement: You work for XYZ Corporation. Your corporation is working on an application and they require secured web servers on Linux to launch the application.

Tasks To Be Performed:

1. Create an instance in the US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region with Linux OS and manage the requirement of web servers of your company using AMI.
2. Replicate the instance in the US-West-2 (Oregon) region.
3. Build two EBS volumes and attach them to the instance in the US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region.
4. Delete one volume after detaching it and extend the size of the other volume. 5. Take backup of this EBS volume

Task 1: Create an instance in the US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region with Linux OS §

1. Log into AWS: I’ll open my AWS Management Console and log in.

2. Access EC2: I’ll navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.

3. Set Region: In the top-right corner, I’ll set my region to US-East-1 (N. Virginia).

4. Launch Instance: I’ll click the “Launch Instance” button.
   

5. Select AMI: I’ll choose a Linux-based Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Amazon Linux

6. Configure Instance: I’ll go with the default settings.

7. Select Key Pair: Selected a .io key I already had

8. Set Up Security Groups: I’ll go with the default settings.

9. Launch: After reviewing all settings, I’ll click “Launch”.
   

Task 2: Replicate the instance in the US-West-2 (Oregon) region §

1. Create AMI: I’ll navigate to the instance I created and create an AMI of it.
   
   Image name: ImageFromUS-east-1

2. Copy to US-West-2: Once the AMI is ready, I’ll copy it to the US-West-2 (Oregon) region.
   
   

3. Launch in US-West-2: I’ll go to the US-West-2 region and launch a new instance using this copied AMI.
   
   

Task 3: Build two EBS volumes and attach them to the instance in the US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region §

1. Navigate to Volumes: In the EC2 Dashboard, I’ll go to the “Volumes” section.

2. Create Two Volumes: I’ll create two new EBS volumes here. I’ll add a tag Name for each Volume1 and Volume2

3. Attach Volumes: I’ll right-click on each volume and choose “Attach Volume”, then select my US-East-1 instance. Will do each Volume individually
   

   Selecting Instance First Instance
   
   

   If I click on First Instance I can see its storage attachments
   

Task 4: Delete one volume after detaching it and extend the size of the other volume §

1. Detach One Volume: In the “Volumes” section, I’ll right-click on one volume and choose “Detach Volume”.

2. Delete Volume: After detaching, I’ll right-click on it again and choose “Delete Volume”.

3. Extend Remaining Volume: I’ll right-click on the remaining volume and choose “Modify Volume” to extend its size to 110
   

Task 5: Take backup of this EBS volume §

1. Create Snapshot: I’ll right-click on the remaining EBS volume and select “Create Snapshot” to take a backup.
   
2. Label Snapshot: I’ll give the snapshot a meaningful label and then create it.