**To create a launch template**

This example creates a launch template that specifies the subnet in which to launch the instance (``subnet-7b16de0c``), assigns a public IP address and an IPv6 address to the instance, and creates a tag for the instance (``purpose=webserver``). ::

  aws ec2 create-launch-template --launch-template-name TemplateForWebServer --version-description WebVersion1 --launch-template-data '{"NetworkInterfaces":[{"AssociatePublicIpAddress":true,"DeviceIndex":0,"Ipv6AddressCount":1,"SubnetId":"subnet-7b16de0c"}],"ImageId":"ami-8c1be5f6","InstanceType":"t2.small","TagSpecifications":[{"ResourceType":"instance","Tags":[{"Key":"purpose","Value":"webserver"}]}]}'

Output::

  {
      "LaunchTemplate": {
          "LatestVersionNumber": 1, 
          "LaunchTemplateId": "lt-01238c059e3466abc", 
          "LaunchTemplateName": "TemplateForWebServer", 
          "DefaultVersionNumber": 1, 
          "CreatedBy": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Bob", 
          "CreateTime": "2019-01-27T09:13:24.000Z"
      }
  }

For more information, see `Launching an Instance from a Launch Template`_ in the *Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide*.

**To create a launch template for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling**

This example creates a launch template named TemplateForAutoScaling with multiple tags and a block device mapping to specify an additional EBS volume when an instance launches. Specify a value for ``Groups`` that corresponds to security groups for the VPC that your Auto Scaling group will launch instances into. Specify the VPC and subnets as properties of the Auto Scaling group. ::

  aws ec2 create-launch-template --launch-template-name TemplateForAutoScaling --version-description AutoScalingVersion1 --launch-template-data '{"NetworkInterfaces":[{"DeviceIndex":0,"AssociatePublicIpAddress":true,"Groups":["sg-7c227019,sg-903004f8"],"DeleteOnTermination":true}],"ImageId":"ami-b42209de","InstanceType":"m4.large","TagSpecifications":[{"ResourceType":"instance","Tags":[{"Key":"environment","Value":"production"},{"Key":"purpose","Value":"webserver"}]},{"ResourceType":"volume","Tags":[{"Key":"environment","Value":"production"},{"Key":"cost-center","Value":"cc123"}]}],"BlockDeviceMappings":[{"DeviceName":"/dev/sda1","Ebs":{"VolumeSize":100}}]}' --region us-east-1 

Output::

  {
      "LaunchTemplate": {
          "LatestVersionNumber": 1,
          "LaunchTemplateId": "lt-0123c79c33a54e0abc",
          "LaunchTemplateName": "TemplateForAutoScaling",
          "DefaultVersionNumber": 1,
          "CreatedBy": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Bob",
          "CreateTime": "2019-04-30T18:16:06.000Z"
      }
  }

For more information, see `Creating a Launch Template for an Auto Scaling Group`_ in the *Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide*.

For information about quoting JSON-formatted parameters, see `Quoting Strings`_ in the *AWS Command Line Interface User Guide*.

.. _`Launching an Instance from a Launch Template`: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-launch-templates.html

.. _`Creating a Launch Template for an Auto Scaling Group`: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/create-launch-template.html

.. _`Quoting Strings`: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-usage-parameters.html#quoting-strings