Question

How can you launch an EC2 instance using the AWS SDK?

Answer 1

Example Python code using Boto3:

import boto3

ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')

instance = ec2.create_instances(
    ImageId='<AMI_ID>',
    InstanceType='<INSTANCE_TYPE>',
    KeyName='<KEY_PAIR_NAME>',
    SecurityGroupIds=['<SECURITY_GROUP_ID>'],
    SubnetId='<SUBNET_ID>',
    MinCount=1,
    MaxCount=1
)