AWS - Launch EC2 Web Instance
Objectives
Launch one EC2 instance with the following requirements:
- Amazon Linux 2 image
- Instance type: pick up one that has 1 vCPUs and 1 GiB memory
- Instance storage should be deleted upon the termination of the instance
- When the instance starts, it should install:
- Install the httpd package
- Start the httpd service
- Make sure the content of /var/www/html/index.html is
I made it! This is is awesome!
- It should have the tag: “Type: web” and the name of the instance should be “web-1”
- HTTP traffic (port 80) should be accepted from anywhere
Solution
- Choose a region close to you
- Go to EC2 service
- Click on “Instances” in the menu and click on “Launch instances”
- Choose image: Amazon Linux 2
- Choose instance type: t2.micro
- Make sure “Delete on Termination” is checked in the storage section
- Under the “User data” field the following:
yum update -y
yum install -y httpd
systemctl start httpd
systemctl enable httpd
echo "<h1>I made it! This is is awesome!</h1>" > /var/www/html/index.html
- Add tags with the following keys and values:
- key “Type” and the value “web”
- key “Name” and the value “web-1”
- In the security group section, add a rule to accept HTTP traffic (TCP) on port 80 from anywhere
- Click on “Review” and then click on “Launch” after reviewing.
- If you don’t have a key pair, create one and download it.