Connecting to an EC2 Instance with Ubuntu and Installing NGINX on AWS

INTRODUCTION

• EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): A scalable virtual server in AWS used to run applications and workloads.
• Ubuntu: A popular, open-source Linux operating system
• AWS (Amazon Web Services): A cloud platform providing computing, storage, and networking services.
• NGINX: is a reverse proxy and web server that is dependable and quick. It serves as a mediator between users and backend systems, distributes traffic among servers, and delivers web pages.

Creating EC2

• to Create an EC2 instance from AWS console search for EC2 on the search bar.
• Launch instance
• name your server and click on ubuntu
• configure the Amazon Machine Image, size and type, in my case, im leaving at default
• Select/create a new pair key

• allow http to have access to web server

• cross-check your settings and launch instance

• upon completion click on view all instances

Connect to EC2 Instance

• right click on the server created and connect

Install NGINX

• A terminal will pop out. we update to the latest package by typing sudo apt-get update
• Install Nginx from Ubuntu repository by typing sudo apt-get install nginx and press y when prompted
• to check the version of nginx installed, type in nginx -v
• we can check the status of the nginx by typing sudo systemctl status nginx
• Select the created server and copy the public ip
• paste the copied public ip address in a browser

Conclusion

Setting up an EC2 instance with Ubuntu and installing NGINX on AWS enables you to create a scalable, high-performance web server. This process equips you to host and serve web content efficiently while making full use of AWS cloud resources.