Run EC2 instance into specific non-default VPC in random subnet

Question

I have a problem and I expect that someone help me.

I'm working with AWS and I have 2 VPC. The default VPC an another VPC created by me. Each VPC has 3 subnets in differents AZ (eu-west-1a, eu-west-1b and eu-west-1c).

I detected that, in default VPC, I can create/run a EC2 instance without specify which subnet. But, with non-default VPC i have to specify which subnet I will use.

In non-default VPC, is it possible create a EC2 without specify a subnet?

I'm interested create a CloudFormation template that create Ec2 instance in differents subnets for redundancy.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '15 at 22:57

I think you can leverage the new Parameter support in Cloudformation to do this.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/parameters-section-structure.html

Get a list of all subnets in your VPC like this:

  "mySubnetIDs" : {
    "Description" : "Subnet IDs",
    "Type" : "List<AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id>"

Then pick the first (or Nth) ID, store that in a variable, and pass it to create instance.

Run EC2 instance into specific non-default VPC in random subnet

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