Starting from Scratch: Manual AWS Infrastructure
Explore how to manually set up basic AWS infrastructure by creating and configuring an EC2 instance to host a simple web application. Learn to connect via SSH, install dependencies like Node.js, and deploy an app, gaining foundational understanding before advancing to automated infrastructure.
We'll cover the following...
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Objective
- Get a simple web application running on a single EC2 instance.
Steps
- Manually create basic AWS infrastructure to host our application.
- Manually install our application on an EC2 instance.
Hosting our application
If you don’t already have an AWS account, you will need to create one.
⚠️You should never use your AWS root account credentials other than to create an Administrator user for your account. AWS has several best practices for managing accounts and ...