To begin this workshop, click one of the 'Deploy to AWS' buttons below for the region you'd like to use. This is the AWS region where you will launch resources for the duration of this workshop. This will open the CloudFormation template in the AWS Management Console for the region you select.
| Region | Launch Template |
|---|---|
| Ohio (us-east-2) |  |
| N. California (us-west-1) | |
| Oregon (us-west-2) | |
| Seoul (ap-northeast-2) | |
| Singapore (ap-southeast-1) | |
| Sydney (ap-southeast-2) | |
| Tokyo (ap-northeast-1) | |
| Frankfurt (eu-central-1) | |
| Ireland (eu-west-1) | |
| N. Virginia (us-east-1) | |
Once you have chosen a region and are inside the AWS CloudFormation Console, you should be on a screen titled "Quick Create Stack".
Screenshot new CF Console
Screenshot old CF Console
In the Stack name section the Stack name is pre-populated with the name "amazonmqworkshop". You can customize that to a name of your choice less than 15 characters in length or leave as is.
The Amazon MQ broker will be named <stackname>-Broker.
In the Parameter section you must provide a password for the user that will administer the Amazon MQ broker. Choose something easy to remember, 12 characters or more. Leave the rest of the options as is and check the I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources box. This is to allow CloudFormation to create a Role to allow access to resources needed by the workshop.
Scroll to the bottom and click Create to launch your stack.
Your stack will take sometime to launch, mostly due to the creation of the Amazon MQ broker. You can track its progress in the "Events" tab. When it is done creating, the status will change from "CREATE_IN_PROGRESS" to "CREATE_COMPLETE".
Screenshot new CF console
Screenshot old CF console
It can take sometime to launch the IDE the first time. Once the creation has completed, you can click on your stack name (“amazonmqworkshop” or the custom name you chose instead) to check the details of your stack. Click on the “Outputs” tab and find the key “Cloud9ConsoleURL”. The assigned value is the URL to open the Cloud9 IDE. Open this URL in a new browser tab and enter “aws” as username and “mq” as password. It can take some time to launch the IDE the first time.
Congratulations, you've successfully completed the workshop setup! You can move on to Lab 1: Set-Up the Broker (Optional)