Amazon EC2 create instance

Nintex external platform is required for this feature. For details, see Enable Nintex external platform features.

Creates a virtual server using the Amazon EC2 web service.

Action settings

Following are the fields and options visible in the configuration settings dialog box for this action.

Section Field Description

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 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 variable containing the security groups that the instance will be assigned to.

Advanced

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: NintexLive_YYYYMMDDhhmmss.

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.

Access credentials

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.

 

Output

Store output for this action using the following selections.

  • Instance ID: Stores the ID of the instance.
  • Public DNS: Stores the public DNS of the instance.
  • Password: Stores the default administrator password of the instance. Applies to Windows instances only.

Depending on action requirements, you may be able to add and remove output variables.

To add an output variable

  1. Select an option from the Select more drop-down list.
  2. Click Add to display a drop-down list for the selected option.
  3. Select a previously defined workflow variable from the drop-down list.

To remove an output variable

  • Click Delete ().

    Note: Some output variables cannot be deleted. For example, the output variable URL for the action Bing news search cannot be deleted.