COM03-AWS100 - Launch a Hello World website on the internet

Cloud Service Provider

Amazon Web Services

Difficulty

Level 100 (Introductory)

Estimated Time

One to Two hours.

Project's Author(s)

Objectives

You need to complete the following:

Launch a linux based EC2 instance in any one region of your choice in a public subnet
Setup a security group that allows http/https connections from the Internet, and ssh from your IP address
ssh into the EC2 instance
setup a webserver on the EC2 instance
add a simple hello world header to the index.html file
Hit the public IP address from a browser and confirm the site is served

You need to answer the following:

What is a region?
What is an availability zone?
What is a public subnet?
How many subnets can there be in one region?
How to launch EC2 instances in public / private subnets?
What are AMIs?
What are security groups?
What are inbound/outbound rules?
what is deny By default rule in security groups?
How to allow access to EC2 from security groups?
How to connect to EC2 instances from your machine?
How to setup your simple static site with ec2?

References

Ideas

For windows users Download and install Putty
Connecting to a Linux EC2 instance from Windows is not possible natively, you will need an ssh client such as Putty to connect , and you will need to follow these steps to ssh into ec2 from windows
You can also launch non linux EC2 instances for example windows servers, for which you will need to RDP into.

Tips

Use t2.micro instances from the free tier as it will suffice for this static site
Use the default setting on the storage screen as 8GB of EBS storage will be enough for this project.