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Launch templates, metadata, and key pairs

Launch templates, metadata, and key pairs - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Launch templates, metadata, and key pairs

- [Narrator] When you start deploying EC2 instances and other services within AWS, you'll notice that there are a lot of parameters that you need to enter in just to get the instances to launch. AWS released the ability to create what are called Launch Templates. The goal of this is to allow you to store all of those parameters so that you can more effectively and easily launch instances. Things like auto scaling, or firing off spot instances, or even on-demand instances. What we're going to do is keep all the data in one simple place, and then when you go to deploy those pieces of information that you provided will then be used to launch whatever you've selected. Another big advantage of this aside from minimizing the amount of time it takes, it's also going to minimize the risk of human errors. You know, typos and things of that nature. There's a component within your instances that provide you some very, very useful information. It can be used from a trouble shooting point of view…

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