When we interacted with our local Windows Vagrant box, it was not using a secure connection; let's look at launching a Windows EC2 instance in an AWS instance and then interacting with it like we did with the CentOS 7 instance in Chapter 10, Highly Available Cloud Deployments.

First of all, we need to create the folder structure for our new playbook:

$ mkdir cloud cloud/group_vars cloud/roles
$ touch cloud/production cloud/site.yml cloud/group_vars/common.yml

Once we have the structure, we need to create four roles, starting with the AWS one.