How To Deploy PMM Using AWS

Here is a small HowTo about installing the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server using the AWS Marketplace.

Requirements:

AWS account
Web-browser with enabled JavaScript
Cup of coffee

For the first you need to open the AWS Marketplace page and search for “Percona Monitoring and Management Server” or just click to this direct link.

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Here you click to Continue to Subscribe and you’ll be redirected to the Subscribe to this software page. On this page you may look at details about your subscription, additional taxes and etcetera.

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Let’s click Continue to Configuration.

On the next page, called Configure this software you need to choose the version of PMM and region, then click Continue to Launch button.

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On the Launch this software page you need to choose:

Choose action: Launch from website
EC2 Instance Type: Any type of instance that suits your needs, t2.medium will be used in this example

Scroll down to the VPC Settings block, here you can set:

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – If not exists, then need to create a new one
Subnet – For communication between instances in VPC
Security group – In settings of selected security group an Inbound and Outbound rules should have permissions for connection through SSH, HTTP and HTTPS protocols form any IP-addresses
Key pair – Need to create a new one if not exists

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