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AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide Table of Contents AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio .............................................................................................................. 1 What is the Toolkit for Visual Studio ............................................................................................ 1 AWS Explorer ..................................................................................................................... 1 Credential and Region Management ..................................................................................... 1 Amazon EC2 ...................................................................................................................... 1 AWS Lambda ..................................................................................................................... 1 AWS CodeCommit .............................................................................................................. 2 Amazon DynamoDB ............................................................................................................ 2 Amazon S3 ........................................................................................................................ 2 Amazon RDS ..................................................................................................................... 2 AWS Elastic Beanstalk ......................................................................................................... 2 AWS CloudFormation .......................................................................................................... 2 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) ......................................................................... 2 Related Information ................................................................................................................... 2 Setting Up the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio ....................................................................................... 4 Setting up the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio ................................................................................ 4 Prerequisites ...................................................................................................................... 4 Install the Toolkit for Visual Studio ...................................................................................... 4 Uninstall the Toolkit for Visual Studio .................................................................................. 5 Older versions of the Toolkit for Visual Studio ....................................................................... 6 Providing AWS credentials .......................................................................................................... 6 Credentials locations .......................................................................................................... 6 Options for configuring credentials ...................................................................................... 7 Creating profiles for AWS credentials .................................................................................... 7 Using AWS SSO ................................................................................................................ 11 Using MFA ....................................................................................................................... 12 Using external credentials ................................................................................................. 15 Using the Toolkit for Visual Studio ............................................................................................ 15 Profiles and Toolkit for Visual Studio Window Binding .......................................................... 15 Working with AWS Services .............................................................................................................. 17 Managing Amazon EC2 Instances .............................................................................................. 17 The Amazon Machine Images and Amazon EC2 Instances Views ............................................. 17 Launching an Amazon EC2 Instance .................................................................................... 19 Connecting to an Amazon EC2 Instance .............................................................................. 22 Ending an Amazon EC2 Instance ........................................................................................ 25 Managing Amazon ECS Instances .............................................................................................. 27 Modifying service properties .............................................................................................. 27 Stopping a task ................................................................................................................ 27 Deleting a service ............................................................................................................. 27 Deleting a cluster ............................................................................................................. 28 Creating a repository ........................................................................................................ 28 Deleting a repository ........................................................................................................ 28 Managing Security Groups from AWS Explorer ............................................................................. 28 Creating a Security Group ................................................................................................. 29 Adding Permissions to Security Groups ............................................................................... 29 Create an AMI from an Amazon EC2 Instance .............................................................................. 31 Setting Launch Permissions on an Amazon Machine Image ........................................................... 32 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) .......................................................................................... 33 Creating a Public-Private VPC for Deployment with AWS Elastic Beanstalk ............................... 34 Deployment Using the AWS Toolkit ........................................................................................... 37 Deploying to Elastic Beanstalk .......................................................................................... 38 Deploying to Amazon EC2 Container Service ....................................................................... 77 Standalone Deployment Tool ............................................................................................ 88 Using the AWS CloudFormation Template Editor for Visual Studio ................................................ 100 iii AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide Creating an AWS CloudFormation Template Project in Visual Studio ...................................... 101 Deploying a AWS CloudFormation Template in Visual Studio ................................................ 103 Estimating the Cost of Your AWS CloudFormation Template Project in Visual Studio ................ 105 Formatting a AWS CloudFormation Template in Visual Studio .............................................. 107 Using Amazon S3 from AWS Explorer ...................................................................................... 108 Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket ........................................................................................ 108 Managing Amazon S3 Buckets from AWS Explorer .............................................................. 109 Uploading Files and Folders to Amazon S3 ........................................................................ 110 Amazon S3 File Operations from AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio ............................................ 111 Using DynamoDB from AWS Explorer ....................................................................................... 115 Creating an DynamoDB Table ........................................................................................... 116 Viewing an DynamoDB Table as a Grid .............................................................................. 117 Editing and Adding Attributes and Values .......................................................................... 118 Scanning an DynamoDB Table .......................................................................................... 119 Using AWS CodeCommit with Visual Studio Team Explorer ......................................................... 121 Credential Types for AWS CodeCommit ............................................................................. 121 Connecting to AWS CodeCommit ...................................................................................... 121 Creating a Repository .....................................................................................................