Starting an Amazon EC2-compatible instance on an Snowball Edge with Amazon OpsHub - Amazon Snowball Edge Developer Guide
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Starting an Amazon EC2-compatible instance on an Snowball Edge with Amazon OpsHub

Use these steps to start an Amazon EC2-compatible instance using Amazon OpsHub.

To start an Amazon EC2-compatible instance

  1. Open the Amazon OpsHub application.

  2. In the Start computing section of the dashboard, choose Get started. Or, choose the Services menu at the top, and then choose Compute (EC2) to open the Compute page.

    Your compute resources appear in the Resources section.

  3. In the Instance name column, under Instances, find the instance that you want to start.

  4. Choose the instance, and then choose Start. The State changes to Pending, and then changes to Running when done.

    Instances tab showing an instance chosen and the Actions menu open with Start chosen.