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Launch templates

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- [Instructor] When you're launching an EC2 instance, you are required to provide parameters or configuration information, such as the AMI ID, instance type, key pair, VPC and subnet information, security groups, storage information, and more. And you're required to provide this information each time you launch an EC2 instance. You can save some time by saving this information in a launch template. With launch templates, you can store EC2 launch parameters and use them to launch EC2 instances. A launch template contains configuration information required to launch an EC2 instance. It contains all the information you would configure from the EC2 instance launch wizard, such as the AMI ID, instance type, subnets, security groups, and more. Launch templates can be used to launch instances from the Amazon EC2 console or the user interface, the AWS SDKs, or software development kits, and the AWS CLI, or the Command Line…

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