Trying It Out

Learn to use AMIs and launch templates to start and recreate your deployment.

Now it’s time to see if everything works regarding this new launch template. If everything is set up correctly, it will allow us to start a new customized WordPress instance from this template with everything set up, including the environment variables through the user data and the changed wp-config.php file.

Launching an EC2 instance from the launch template

Let’s try it out. Run this command in the terminal below:

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