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title: How to connect to a Cloud Sandpit in AWS
description: "**How to create and access a Cloud Sandpit using AWS to evaluate cloud-based solutions.** ## Reasons to use a Cloud Sandpit - **Automatic application of any necessary organisational security requirements for provisioning** For example, security features such as screen recording,…"
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updated: "2025-12-17"
category: Configuring your Sandpits
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# How to connect to a Cloud Sandpit in AWS

**How to create and access a Cloud Sandpit using AWS to evaluate cloud-based solutions.**

## Reasons to use a Cloud Sandpit

- **Automatic application of any necessary organisational security requirements for provisioning**
  For example, security features such as screen recording, limiting instance sizes, notifying admin when network connections to the internet are made, allowing custom IAM users to be created)
- **Only being accessible through an air-gapped environment**
  Allows additional controls to be applied as needed. For example, deactivating downloads and uploads, creating barriers between your network and cloud providers
- **Instant access to a secure cloud environment**
  Develop, prototype, and evaluate any solution that can be deployed on the cloud

## How to connect to a Cloud Sandpit

1. Click **Sandpits**:
   ![Sandpits in sidebar](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/menu-4.png)
2. Select the [Sandpit](https://nayaone.com/help/sandpits-general/sandpits-overview) you want to connect to. Click the **Files**tab and open the **login credentials file**:

   ![login txt file](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/login.png)
3. Click **Launch the cloud environment**:

   ![launch button](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/launch.png)
4. **Login**to AWS
5. Let's configure computational resources with an EC2 instance. For this example we'll use a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI), known as a Compute Sandpit. Click **Launch Instance**:

   ![launch instance button](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/instance.png)
6. Click **browse more AMIs**:

   ![browse more AMIs button](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ami.png)
7. Click **My AMIs**, select the **Shared with me**filter, select **compute-sandpit-2**:

   ![select button for compute sandpit](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/share.png)
8. Scroll down to **Key pair (login)**. You can either create a key using the Key Management Service or select **Proceed without a key pair**:

   ![proceed without a pair dropdown](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pair.gif)
9. Click **Launch instance**
10. Now let's **connect to the EC2 Instance**
11. Now:
    1. Click **Instances**
    2. Click the**EC2 node** you want to use
    3. Check it has a **public IPv4 DNS**
    4. Click **Connect**:

    ![EC2 instances screen](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/instances.png)
12. Click **Connect** to SSH into the node:

    ![connect button](https://nayaone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/connect.png)
13. You're now connected to the Cloud Sandpit