EC2

Launch EC2

1.1 Click AMIs to navigate to the dashboard in the N. California (us-west-1) region.

1.2 Select pilotAMI. Click the Launch instance from AMI button.

1.3 Enter pilot-secondary as the Name.

1.4 In the Key pair (login) section. Select ee-default-keypair as the Key pair name.

1.5 In the Network settings section click the Edit button.

1.6 Select pilot-secondary as the VPC. Select Select existing security group for the Firewall (security groups) and then select pilot-secondary-EC2SecurityGroup-xxx as the Common security groups.

1.7 Expand the Advanced details section. Select pilot-secondary-S3InstanceProfile-xxx as the IAM instance profile.

1.8 Copy and paste the following script into User data which will configure the application to use the secondary region N. California (us-west-1) database and restart the application. Then click the Launch instance button. To learn more, see user data.

User Data Script:

#!/bin/bash
sudo su ec2-user
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | python -c "import json,sys; print json.loads(sys.stdin.read())['region']")
export DATABASE=$(aws rds describe-db-clusters --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --db-cluster-identifier pilot-secondary --query 'DBClusters[*].[Endpoint]' --output text)
sudo bash -c "cat >/home/ec2-user/unishopcfg.sh" <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
export DB_ENDPOINT=$DATABASE
EOF
sudo systemctl restart unishop