Amazon EC2 create instance
- This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.
- Action is available only with the Nintex for Office 365 Enterprise Edition.
Creates a virtual server using the Amazon EC2 web service.
Action settings
Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:
- Double-click the action.
- Click
on the action and then click Configure.
See Action configuration window for more information.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Region |
Specify the region. |
| AMI ID |
Specify the ID of the Amazon Machine Image (AMI). |
| Instance name |
Specify the instance name. |
| Instance type |
Specify the instance type. |
| Security groups |
Specify a collection or dictionary variable containing the security groups that the instance will be assigned to. |
| Key pair name |
Specify the name of the key pair to associate with the instance. A key pair allows you to securely connect to the instance. If a key pair name is not specified, a new key pair is created with the following naming format: Note: To connect to a Linux instance, the SSH client requires the user to have a copy of the private key file. A key pair can be created manually to download the private key file. |
| Private key file |
Specify the corresponding private key file (.pem) to obtain the default administrator password for a Windows instance. If a key pair name is specified without a corresponding private key file, no password is returned. |
| AWS Access Key ID |
Specify the Amazon Web Service Access Key ID. |
|
AWS Secret Access Key |
Specify the corresponding Amazon Web Service (AWS) Secret Access Key. |
|
Instance ID |
Specify a workflow variable to store the ID of the instance. |
|
Public DNS |
Specify a workflow variable to store the public DNS of the instance. |
|
Password |
Specify a workflow variable to store the default administrator password of the instance. Applies to Windows instances only. |