Deploy within Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Synergy SKY Support

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

You can view our video tutorial on the bottom of this article for a full walkthrough assisted by one of our engineers.

Requirements

Server Requirements	T2.xlarge - 4vcpu, 16GiB memory, 500GB HDD (SSD mandatory)
General Requirements	Please refer to the General Requirements

Step by Step Guide

Start from your AWS Management Console dashboard
In the top-right, click your location, and change this to "Europe (London) eu-west-2"

Note: If you would like to have the instance running in a closer location, DO NOT copy the image to your location & try to build; it will fail. Instead, finish the build in one of the available locations, then move the instance to your preferred one.
In the top-left, expand the 'Services' drop-down menu
Launch EC2. This is under 'All Services' > Compute > EC2
On the left of the EC2 dashboard, navigate to Images > AMIs
In the AMI screen, select "Public images" from the image location dropdown list
In the filter search box, enter "synergysky" and press enter
Select the AMI named “ami-eu-west-2-p-synergyskyappliance” and click “Launch”
On "Step 2: Choose an Instance Type", select your preferred instance to deploy in.
Note: We recommend t2.xlarge, per our System Requirements documentation
Click "Next: Configure Instance Details" in the bottom-right corner
Complete Configuration Details page per your company policy and standards & click “Next: Add Storage”
Click “Add New Volume” and change the size to 500gb
Note: This can differ based on your deployment size per our Requirements documentation
Click "Next: Add Tags"
Continue through 'Step 5' and 'Step 6' to configure Tags & Security Groups per your company policy
On 'Step 7', review your Instance details and click "Launch"
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.

IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT LOSE THIS KEY FILE AS IT CAN NOT BE REPLICATED