Before we get started, there's a small list of things you'll need to have ready:

• AmiId: This is the ID of an AMI in your region. For this recipe, we'd recommend using an AWS Linux AMI because our instance will attempt to run some yum commands on startup.
• VPCID: This is the ID of the VPC you wish to launch the EC2 server into.
• SubnetIDs: These are the subnets that our EC2 instance can launch in.