To remediate the misconfiguration of specified applications not being installed on an AWS EC2 instance using the AWS CLI, follow these steps:

1. Connect to your AWS account using the AWS CLI by running the aws configure command and providing your AWS Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, default region, and default output format.

2. Identify the EC2 instance that requires the specified applications to be installed. You can list all your EC2 instances using the following command:

   aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId, InstanceType, State.Name, PublicIpAddress, PrivateIpAddress, Tags[?Key==`Name`].Value[]]' --output table
   

3. Connect to the identified EC2 instance using SSH. Make sure you have the necessary permissions to connect to the instance.

4. Once connected to the instance, you can install the specified applications using the package manager available on the instance. For example, if you need to install Apache web server on a Linux instance, you can use the following command:

   sudo yum install httpd   # For Amazon Linux, CentOS, or RHEL
   

   sudo apt-get install apache2   # For Ubuntu or Debian
   

5. After installing the required applications, start the services if necessary. For example, to start the Apache web server, you can use the following command:

   sudo service httpd start   # For Amazon Linux, CentOS, or RHEL
   

   sudo service apache2 start   # For Ubuntu or Debian
   

6. Verify that the specified applications have been successfully installed and are running as expected. You can test the installation by accessing the application through a web browser or using other appropriate methods.

7. Once you have verified that the applications are installed and functioning correctly, you have successfully remediated the misconfiguration.

By following these steps, you can ensure that the specified applications are installed on the AWS EC2 instance and the misconfiguration is remediated.

To remediate the misconfiguration of specified applications not being installed on an AWS EC2 instance using Python, you can follow these steps:

1. Create a Python script: Start by creating a Python script that will install the required applications on the EC2 instance. You can use the boto3 library, which is the AWS SDK for Python, to interact with AWS services.

2. Install Boto3: If you haven’t already installed the boto3 library, you can do so using pip:

   pip install boto3
   

3. Configure AWS credentials: Make sure you have your AWS credentials configured either by setting environment variables or using the AWS CLI aws configure command.

4. Write Python script: Here is an example Python script that uses boto3 to connect to AWS EC2 and install the specified applications on the instance:

   import boto3
   
   # Specify the instance id of the EC2 instance
   instance_id = 'your_instance_id'
   
   # Specify the applications to be installed
   applications = ['application1', 'application2']
   
   # Connect to EC2
   ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
   
   # Get the EC2 instance
   instance = ec2.Instance(instance_id)
   
   # SSH into the instance and install the applications
   install_commands = [
       f'sudo yum update -y',
       f'sudo yum install -y {" ".join(applications)}'
   ]
   
   # Run commands on the instance
   response = instance.run_shell_script(Commands=install_commands)
   
   print(response)
   

5. Run the Python script: Save the script to a file, for example, install_applications.py, and run it using Python:

   python install_applications.py
   

6. Verify installation: Once the script has executed successfully, SSH into the EC2 instance and verify that the specified applications have been installed.

By following these steps, you can use Python and boto3 to remediate the misconfiguration of specified applications not being installed on an AWS EC2 instance.