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Setting up an AWS Instance:

Prerequisites: TODOadmin privileges for the jcsda-usaf account

1. Log into the jcsda-usaf AWS console using the region us-east-2
2. Navigate to the EC2.
3. On the left hand side by, click "Instances". Then hit the top right orange button labeled "Launch instances". From here you can set up the instance. Below is an example of configuration used for a new spack-stack CI instance, which will be used to run the GNU tests. 
   Name and tags: <useful-name-for-spack-stack-ci>
   Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image): Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type; Architecture: 64-bit (x86) or 64-bit (arm)
   Instance type:c6a.8xlarge
   Key pair: <your_key_pair>
   Network settings:
       VPC: ParallelClusterVPC
       Subnet: public-us-east-2b
       Firewall: Select existing security group
       Common security group: global-ssh
   Configure storage: 600 GB
   Once everything is configured to your liking, click the orange "Launch instance" button.
4. Navigate to your newly created instance (in EC2 → Instance → <new_instance_id>) and click "connect". You can go to the "SSH client" side and follow the instructions on the screen.

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