As a return you will get the volume IDĮc2-import-volume -f raw -s 1 -b -o -w -z eu-west-1a Import the image as a volume on your AWS.After RouterOS is installed it will be much harder to change the available size, the following command will increase the image size to 940MB Resize the image before installing the RouterOS.AWS API tools installed and configured (ec2-*).Tool to resize the image file prior the installation as default image is 64MB of size and in some cases, more storage is required (qemu-img, VMWare built-in tool, VirtualBox external tool).Virtual management software that works with ISOLINUX booter/installer on CHR image (KVM, VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation, VMWare Fusion, Hyper-V these tools are interchangeable).To get CHR RouterOS running on Amazon AWS cloud at this moment, there are certain steps that you have to do to get this working from scratch. Ready to use CHR image is available from Amazon Marketplace (see above)

Warning: Following instructions are necessary ONLY if you want to make your own CHR image.

See previous section how to upload your SSH keys to AWS.įor more info see Amazon EC2 User Guide -> Network and Security section Creating your own CHR image The private.key file permissions have to be set so that only the owner has access to it. Ssh -i private.key 1.2.3.4 is the IP of your CHR instance on AWS. If you're using Linux or macOS, you can generate SSH keys either on your computer using 'ssh-keygen' command or using Amazon generated key and connect from the terminal using following command:

Select the private key (PuTTY: Connection -> SSH -> Auth section).

Connect to the CHR instance using PuTTY.

The IP address of your CHR instance is available in EC2 Management Console -> Running Instances screen.

Launch the CHR instance from ' AWS Marketplace'.

Upload the public part to the ' AWS EC2 Dasboard' -> Key Pairs.

Generate SSH key pair, use the two buttons to save both the private ('Save private key') and the public ('Save public key') part to your computer (two files).

To generate SSH key on Windows PuTTYgen tool is needed. By default only SSH (command line) access and only using SSH keys is allowed to Amazon instances. There are several steps that are necessary to lauch a CHR instance on AWS.

Launching CHR on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

1 Launching CHR on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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