Agents are designed to be capable of operating on desktop VMs. Running a full VM locally can consume a fair amount of resources, it’s
often preferred to run the VM in the cloud. This section will walk you through how to set up a AWS account from scratch to run a VM.
You have now successfully created an AWS account, set up the necessary permissions, and authenticated the CLI to create EC2 instances.
For more advanced configurations and management, refer to the AWS documentation.If you have not already run through our Quickstart to setup surfkit, please do that now.Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to create an AWS cloud VM for an agent to use with the following command: