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# Creating a Workstation

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virtual workstations kindly hosted by [IAPP.org](https://iapp.org/)
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First login to the AWS Console. Open your browser and navigate to the AWS Cloud9 Product page:

<https://us-east-2.console.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/home/product>

> NOTE: Your instructor will provide you with the login information.

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> Make sure you are in the `US East N. Virginia (us-east-1)` region
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Click on the `Create Environment` button

### Step 1

Enter your name as the `Name` of the new environment.&#x20;

> NOTE: Do not use the Name `The Instructor`

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### Step 2

Select the following:

* Environment type: `Create a new EC2 instance for environment (direct access)`
* Instance type: `m5.large`
* Platform: `Amazon Linux2`
* Cost-saving setting: `After a day`
* Network Settings > VPC: `vpc-aws-sandbox`
* Network Settings > Subnet: `subnet-aws-sandbox-DMZ-subnet-A`

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Please add the following New Tag before clicking `Next step`
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Click `Next step`

### Step 3

Your review page should look like this (with your own name as the `Name`)

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Click `Create environment`

After your environment is created, you should in your virtual workspace.

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