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Deploy within Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sean Vohs
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Introduction

The Synergy SKY Platform is a Linux based VM image that can be hosted within most virtualized environments. This article describes deployment within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments including how to:

  • Launch the virtual machine template
  • Configure storage
  • Configure network and firewall rules

Requirements

Server Requirements

T3.xlarge – 4vcpu, 16GiB memory, 500GB HDD (SSD mandatory)

or

T2.xlarge - 4vcpu, 16GiB memory, 500GB HDD (SSD mandatory)
General Requirements

Please refer to the General Requirements

 

Step by Step Guide

  1. Start from your AWS Management Console dashboard
  2. In the top-right, click your location, and change this to "Europe (London) eu-west-2"
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  3. In the top-left, expand the 'Services' drop-down menu
  4. Launch EC2. This is under 'All Services' > Compute > EC2mceclip0.png


  5. On the left of the EC2 dashboard, navigate to Images > AMIs
  6. In the AMI screen, select "Public images" from the image location dropdown listmceclip0.png



  7. In the filter search box, enter "synergysky" and press entermceclip1.png



  8. Select the AMI named “ami-eu-west-2-p-synergyskyappliance” and click “Launch”mceclip2.png



  9. On "Step 2: Choose an Instance Type", select your preferred instance to deploy in.
    Note: We recommend t2.xlarge, per our System Requirements documentation

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  10. Click "Next: Configure Instance Details" in the bottom-right corner

  11. Complete Configuration Details page per your company policy and standards & click “Next: Add Storage”

  12. Click “Add New Volume” and change the size to 500gb
    Note: This can differ based on your deployment size per our Requirements documentation05_addstorage500gb.JPG


  13. Click "Next: Add Tags"
  14. Continue through 'Step 5' and 'Step 6' to configure Tags & Security Groups per your company policy
  15. On 'Step 7', review your Instance details and click "Launch"
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  16. AWS will then assist in creating a public/private key to securely SSH into your Instance. You can use an existing one(if you have one), or create a new pair.
    Note: We do NOT recommend going without a keypair.
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    IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT LOSE THIS KEY FILE AS IT CAN NOT BE REPLICATED

 

You are now ready to SSH into your Synergy SKY Platform hosted by AWS! It can be accessed using default username and password over SSH.

 

 

Next Step

To complete the configuration of the virtual machine, please go to this article.

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