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docs: Launch AWS instance with SEV-SNP enabled#8

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@donaldh donaldh commented Feb 9, 2026

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One question about AMI compatibility, the AMI envar is it backed by an OS that supports EUFI boot ? and does it have the AMD SEV_SNP kernel drivers ?

--user-data file://ec2/sev-vm.txt \
--block-device-mappings file://ec2/disk-mappings.json \
--security-group-ids sg-09b8214c642687e97 \
--cpu-options AmdSevSnp=enabled \
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@donaldh I suppose this is where all the magic happens ;) for a confidential instance

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Yep.

--instance-type c6a.2xlarge \
--key-name donaldh-et-security \
--associate-public-ip-address \
--user-data file://ec2/sev-vm.txt \
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This file path looks like its relative - should it not be absolute ?

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Relative paths work fine for me with the AWS CLI.

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donaldh commented Feb 11, 2026

One question about AMI compatibility, the AMI envar is it backed by an OS that supports EUFI boot ? and does it have the AMD SEV_SNP kernel drivers ?

That AMI is Fedora 42 which has the sev_guest kernel module.

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lmzuccarelli commented Feb 12, 2026

@donaldh - thanks for PR.

From my side it LGTM - I'll wait for @maryamtahhan @PoolPooer to chime in

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