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launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices

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.

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# Launching EC2 Instances with Best Practices

## Overview

Domain expertise for launching EC2 instances with sensible defaults optimized for security, cost-efficiency, and operational best practices. Covers AMI selection, instance type recommendation, network configuration, IAM role creation, security group hardening, storage configuration, tagging strategy, and post-launch verification.

## Launch an EC2 instance

To launch a fully configured EC2 instance with best-practice defaults, follow the procedure exactly.
See [EC2 instance launch procedure](references/launch-ec2-instance-with-best-practices.md).

The procedure handles:

- Intelligent defaults based on workload type and environment