Installing RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 on AWS

Last Updated : Jun 10, 2026 |

About this task

Use this procedure to deploy the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 operating system on your AWS instance. If you are deploying a cluster, repeat this procedure for each Avaya Aura® Device Services node.

Before you begin

Create security groups.

Procedure

  1. On the Amazon Web Services Management console, navigate to Services  > EC2.
  2. Click Launch instance.
  3. On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image page, in the left pane, click Community AMIs and then click the Red Hat check box.
  4. From the list of operating systems, select the RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 and then click Select.

    The following is an example of the RHEL 8.4 or RHEL 8.10 name: RHEL-8.4_HVM-GA-20181017-X86_64-0-hOURLY2-gp2

  5. On the Choose an Instance Type page, select an appropriate instance type and then click Next.

    For more information about the supported instance types, see Resources profile specifications for Avaya Aura Device Services on Amazon Web Services.

  6. On the Configure Instance Details page, configure the settings as follows:
    1. In Network, select the VPC that you configured for your deployment.
    2. In Subnet, select the subnet that you configured for your deployment.
    3. In Domain join directory, select one of the following:

      • If you plan to use your own DNS server, select No directory.

      • If you plan to use the AWS Route 53 for DNS, select an appropriate domain from Route 53.

    4. In the Network interfaces area, create two ethernet network interfaces as follows:

      • eth0 with the IP address of the Avaya Aura® Device Services node.

      • eth1 with the IP address of the Utility Server.

    5. For other parameters, keep the default values.
  7. On the Add Storage page, create four EBS volumes using the values provided in Disk partitions for software-only deployments.

    For Volume type, use General Purpose SSD (gp2) for all volumes.

    The following image shows the configured volumes:

  8. Optional On the Add Tags page, add tags for the management instance and volumes.
  9. On the Configure Security Group page, do the following:
    1. In Assign a security group, select Select an existing security group.
    2. Select the Avaya Aura® Device Services security group that you created when configuring security groups.
  10. On the Review Instance Launch page, verify the instance settings and then click Launch.

Next Steps

  • If you are using your own DNS server or a public DNS server, configure DNS settings as described in Configuring DNS settings on RHEL.

  • Configure security groups for the secondary eth1 interface.