All of the tasks we completed to launch an EC2 instance and install Apache httpd can be automated with a tool called Cloudformation. What would we have to do?
Download and launch this template in the AWS Cloudformation Console to peform all of the steps in exercises 1-5. The stack takes about 2 minutes to create. Simply delete the stack to perform exercise 6 (Cleaning Up). Note that you must have an existing private key in EC2 before you launch this template.