Getting Started

This tutorial introduces you to the key tasks that you do as a catalog administrator. You create a product that is based on an AWS CloudFormation template, which defines the AWS resources used by the product. The product, Linux Desktop, is a cloud development environment that runs on Amazon Linux. You add the product to a portfolio and distribute it to the end user. Finally, you log in as the end user to test the product.

Before You Begin

Complete the tasks described in Setting Up AWS Service Catalog.

Tasks

• Step 1: Download the AWS CloudFormation Template
• Step 2: Create a Key Pair
• Step 3: Create an AWS Service Catalog Portfolio
• Step 4: Create an AWS Service Catalog Product
• Step 5: Add a Template Constraint to Limit Instance Size
• Step 6: Add a Launch Constraint to Assign an IAM Role
• Step 7: Grant End Users Access to the Portfolio
• Step 8: Test the End User Experience