Managing AWS instances

Now, we're ready to create our first virtual machine using boto3. As we have discussed, we need the AMI that we will instantiate an instance from. Think of an AMI as a Python class; creating an instance will create an object from it. We will use the Amazon Linux AMI, which is a special Linux operating system maintained by Amazon and used for deploying Linux machines without any extra charges. You can find a full AMI ID, per region, at https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/:

import boto3
ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
instance = ec2.create_instances(ImageId='ami-824c4ee2', MinCount=1, MaxCount=1, InstanceType='m5.xlarge',
Placement={'AvailabilityZone': 'us-west-2'},
)
print(instance[0])

In the preceding example, the following applies:

1. We imported the boto3 module that we installed previously.
2. Then, we specified a resource type that we wanted to interact with, which is EC2, and assigned that to the ec2 object.

3. Now, we are eligible to use the create_instance() method and...