Launches an EC2 instance with secure, cost-efficient defaults including AMI selection, burstable instance sizing, least-privilege IAM roles, hardened security groups, encrypted EBS volumes, and comprehensive tagging. Use when deploying new EC2 instances following AWS best practices for security and cost optimization.
Install
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practicesnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices -a claude-code -gnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git --path skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practicesgh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices ~/.claude/skills/launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices ~/.agents/skills/launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode