Creating an AWS Instance for POVs Using a Tufin AMI

Overview

This topic explains how to create an AWS instance for POVs using an AMI developed by Tufin. Using this AMI will simplify the process of deploying TOS Aurora on AWS.

This procedure supplements, but does not replace the official documentation for a Prepare an AWS Instance.

Prerequisites

In your AWS account's Management Console, go to EC2 and create the following:

  1. Security Group

  2. Load balancer

  3. Target Groups

For more information, see:

Create the AWS instance

  1. In your AWS console, navigate to EC2 > Instances > Launch Instances.

  2. Select one of the following regions:

    • US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1

    • Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1

  3. In the Name and tags pane, enter the name of the instance.

  4. In the Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image) pane, click browse more AMIs.

  5. In the Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) window, click Community AMIs and search for TOS-Aurora-POV.

  6. In the Instance type pane, select an instance type that meets your CPU and RAM resource requirements (see Prerequisites section).

  7. In the Key pair (login) pane, select or create a key pair to securely connect to your instance.

    The default user to use with the key is rocky.

  8. In the Network Settings pane, click Edit, and enter/select the following details:

    • Network: The VPC you are using with this instance

    • Subnet: The subnet you are using with this instance

    • (Optional) Auto-assign public IP: Select Disable.

    • Firewall (security groups): The security group you created in the prerequisites.

  9. In the Configure Storage pane, enter/select the following:

    • 400

    • General purpose SSD (gp3)

  10. Click Launch Instance.

  11. Install TOS Aurora, see the official TOS documentation, starting from Install TOS Aurora.