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Install the latest version of EC2Launch

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Install the latest version of EC2Launch - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Use the following procedure to download and install the latest version of EC2Launch on your instances.

To download and install the latest version of EC2Launch

  1. If you have already installed and configured EC2Launch on an instance, make a backup of the EC2Launch configuration file. The installation process does not preserve changes in this file. By default, the file is located in the C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Config directory.

  2. Download EC2-Windows-Launch.zip to a directory on the instance.

  3. Download install.ps1 to the same directory where you downloaded EC2-Windows-Launch.zip.

  4. Run install.ps1

  5. If you made a backup of the EC2Launch configuration file, copy it to the C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Config directory.

To download and install the latest version of EC2Launch using PowerShell

If you have already installed and configured EC2Launch on an instance, make a backup of the EC2Launch configuration file. The installation process does not preserve changes in this file. By default, the file is located in the C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Config directory.

To install the latest version of EC2Launch using PowerShell, run the following commands from a PowerShell window as an administrator:

mkdir $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch
$Url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/EC2Launch/latest/EC2-Windows-Launch.zip"
$DownloadZipFile = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch\" + $(Split-Path -Path $Url -Leaf)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -OutFile $DownloadZipFile
$Url = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/EC2Launch/latest/install.ps1"
$DownloadZipFile = "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch\" + $(Split-Path -Path $Url -Leaf)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $Url -OutFile $DownloadZipFile
& $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\EC2Launch\install.ps1
Note

If you receive an error when downloading the file, and you are using Windows Server 2016, TLS 1.2 might need to be enabled for your PowerShell terminal. You can enable TLS 1.2 for the current PowerShell session with the following command and then try again:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

Verify the installation by checking the launch agent. Run the following commands from a PowerShell window as an administrator:

Import-Module C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Module\Ec2Launch.psm1
Import-LocalizedData -BaseDirectory C:\ProgramData\Amazon\EC2-Windows\Launch\Module\ -FileName 'Ec2Launch.psd1' -BindingVariable moduleManifest
$moduleManifest.Get_Item('ModuleVersion')
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