3.4.2. Managing a RHEL VM on AWS by using the AWS console

Procedure

1. Open the AWS Management Console. Search for IAM, open IAM, choose Roles, then choose Create role for vmimport.

2. In the Trusted entity type field, choose Custom trust policy. Paste the vmie.amazonaws.com trust policy from the VM Import/Export documentation, then choose Next.

   Add permissions: skip managed policies if you add an inline VM Import/Export policy next; otherwise attach required policies, then Next.

3. Role name vmimport, Create role.

   In case of adding permissions, open the role. Choose the Permissions tab, choose Add permissions, choose Create inline policy, then choose the JSON tab. Paste the vmimport access policy with your S3 bucket ARNs, then choose Create policy.

4. Open CloudShell from the toolbar or global search.

   In the CloudShell pane, set the Region selector to the same Region as your S3 object.

   At the CloudShell (where the shell accepts aws commands, not the console Search field), enter aws ec2 import-snapshot with your disk container file, then aws ec2 describe-import-snapshot-tasks until the import status is completed.

5. In the Amazon EC2 console, open Elastic Block Store, choose Snapshots, and confirm the snapshot ID.

   On Snapshots, select the snapshot, open Actions, choose Create image from snapshot, then finish the wizard.

6. Open Images, choose AMIs, select the AMI, choose Launch instance from AMI, then finish the wizard.

7. If you need a key pair, choose Network & Security, Key pairs, then Create key pair, and choose .pem.

   Save <example_key>.pem with restrictive file permissions.

8. Choose Instances, select the instance, choose Connect, then open EC2 Instance Connect or SSH client.
9. On the instance, register Red Hat subscriptions.