Optionally setting instance family of EC2 instance about basti HOT 6 CLOSED

Because most CDK constructs that use ec2 under the hood already allow for this functionality. This is already added to the CDK construct. But it is certainly good that people will be using this.

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@DrFunk-n-stein I thought of adding this configuration option before. Just like with #50, it will also be really natural to provide such a configuration in a CDK construct or a Terraform module.

Could you please describe your current Basti usage?

1. How many sessions do you start a day?
2. How many people can use Basti simultaneously?
3. Do you use Basti only for RDS or do you have more data-intensive connection targets?
4. Have you noticed Basti instance running close to its maximum capacity (CPU, RAM)?

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@BohdanPetryshyn yup, this will make a lot of sense in an IaC context. I was not referring to a performance issue, rather than compliance/cost saving requirements in bigger setups. I'm a SecDevOps consultant and am setting up also landing zones and cost saving measures, therefore I've seen such setups several times:
multi-account, several bastion hosts lying around, accumulating costs at scale.

Therefore, it could make sense to use different instance families (e.g. t3, t3a, t4g, or whatever someone is using)

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t2.micro is not available in my region (af-south-1) and so I am not able to use basti

here is the error I get:

Error setting up bastion. Can't create bastion EC2 instance. Unexpected error: The requested configuration is currently not supported. Please check the documentation for supported configurations.. This operation might have already created AWS resources. Please, run `basti cleanup` before retrying

It would be great if the instance type was configurable. I'd like to use t3.micro

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@ACronje, thank you for reporting this! I will introduce this configuration by the end of the next week when I return from my vacation.

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Hey @DrFunk-n-stein and @ACronje 👋

I'm happy to let you know that the ability to select the EC2 instance type was introduced in v1.4.0!

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