Category: AWS

Web Server in EC2 Instance

In this article, I will show you how to create EC2 instance (Windows Server 2019) and then install web server in EC2 instance.

1- Log in to AWS account and then go to the AWS Services tab at the top left corner.

2- Click on Launch Instance button.

3- Select Windows Server 2019

4- Select Instance type
Click Next : Configure Instance details

5- Number of instances – 1
Network – default.
Subnets – default
Auto-assign Public IP – Enable.
Click on Next : Add Storage.

6- Select Storage
Click Next : Add Tags.

7- Tag – web server
Click on Next : Configure Security Groups

8- Security group name – My Security Group
Select Protocols – (RDP, HTTP, HTTPS) and then select source anywhere
Click on Review and Launch

9- Review the instance details, parameters and then click launch.

10- Select Create a new key pair
Type a name for your key – Web Server
Select the download key pair button and save it in your secured folder
After downloading the key pair then click launch instance.

11- Select View Instances

12- Instance status is running
Select instance and then click connect.

13- Click on get password.

14- Click choose file button.

15- Select the key pair you have downloading in earlier and then click ok.

Click Decrypt Password.

16- Copy the password and then select download remote desktop file

17- Click connect.
Paste password and then click ok.

18- Click yes
EC2 Instance (windows server 2019 desktop)

install web server in EC2 instance

Install Web Server IIS

1- Server Manager, Dashboard and then select Add roles and features.

2- Add roles and features wizard click next.

3- Install web server IIS installation, leave default Role-based or feature-based installation selected, and then click Next.

4- Server selection, Select server and then click next.

5- From the server roles, select the checkbox next to Web Server (IIS).

5- A new window will popup that additional features are required, simply click the Add Features button to install these as well.

6- Click next.

7- You can install any additional features at this stage, click next on the Select features window.

8- Web Server Role (IIS) window, click next

9- Install web server IIS, role services option you can install additional services for IIS if required. Click Next.

10- Confirm installation selections, review the summary, and then click the Install button when you are ready to proceed with installing the IIS web server.

12- No reboot should be required, however, if you remove the role a reboot will be needed.

13- Open the path in C drive (C:\inetpub\wwwroot) in notepad, rename it (this is Amazon Web Server), and then save it.

14- Select your Web Server Instance, under description copy public IP Address.

15- Paste in web browsers.

Increase Disk Size EC2 Instance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) you may find that when we are using one of the EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) provided, you may run out of disk space. There doesn’t show up to be any way to resize an Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume; however, you can create a new one based on an existing snapshot and replace the current drive with a larger one. I have submitted the instructions for doing so below.

1- Log into the AWS Management Console

Increase Disk Size EC2 Instance

Select services and then select EC2 under compute.

2- Make sure that the EC2 Instance that you want to change is not currently running

Create Snapshot

3- Select Elastic Block Store, select Volumes
Select the box next to the Volume that needs more space
Select Action menu, from the drop-down list, select Create Snapshot

4- Type a Name, a Description and then click create snapshot.

5- Snapshot request succeeded click the close button.

6- Go back to Elastic Block Store select Volumes
Select action menu and then click Create Volume

7- Select volume type
Type the desired size for the new volume
Be sure that you select the same Availability Zone for your instance

8- Click Create volume

9- Choose the box next to the Volume that is currently connected to the Instance
Make sure that there is no other Volumes are selected

10- From the Action menu list select Attach Volume

11- Select the Instance that you want to change
Change the value in Device from xvdf to /dev/sda1 and then click Attach

12- Click close.

13- Go to your Instances and start your Instance
After starting click connect.
Click choose file

14- Select your key pair and then click open

15- Select decrypt password

16- Select get password

17- Copy password and then click download remote file

18- Paste key pair and then click OK.

19- Now you can see only one partition is showing.

20- Open server manager, select tools and then click computer management.

21- Under storage select disk management.

22- Right click on offline disk and click online

23- Disk is online

24- Here is 2nd disk.

25- After you are gratified that the volume works, feel free to delete the Snapshot.
Select snapshot under elastic block store, select the action menu and then select delete.

26- Select Yes, Delete.

Create EC2 Instance in AWS

In this blog, I am going to create an EC2 Instance in AWS. I will show you how to launch an on-demand EC2 instance in AWS Cloud. The instance would have charged per hour with different rates based on the type of the instance chosen. AWS offers multiple instance types for the relevant business needs of the user.
Hence, you can rent an instance based on your own CPU & memory requirements, and use it as long as you want. You can terminate the instance when it is no more used & save on costs. This is the most striking benefit of an on-demand instance- you can drastically save on your CAPEX.

What is Amazon EC2 Instance Click Here?

Create EC2 Instance

1- Login with AWS account and go to the AWS Services tab at the top left corner. Click on EC2 under compute.

2- Select instance on your left side and then click on Launch Instance button.

3- Here we can choose the default Amazon (64 bit) AMI.

4- Choose instance type.
Click Next : Configure Instance details

5- Type Number of instances.

6- Network section select you of VPCs available in our platform I am selecting the default one. Subnets we can select the subnet where you need to place our instance.

7- Enable termination protection, It will not delete your instance if you have enabled accidental termination protection.
Click on Next : Add Storage.

8- Here you can change your volume size, add new volumes, change the volume type, etc.
Under Volume type, you can choose Magnetic, General Purpose SSD, Provisioned IOPS.
Click Next : Add Tags.

9- Here we have tagged the instance (windows server 2019)
Click on Next : Configure Security Groups

10- Here you can create a new Security Group.
Naming our SG for easier reference
Select Protocols which you want to enable on my instance
Click on Review and Launch

11- Review instance details and parameters and then click launch.

12- Create a key pair to instance login. A key pair is a kind of public, private key.
AWS stocks the private key in the instance, you are asked to download the private key. Verify you download the key and keep it safe and secured.

Select Create a new key pair

Type a name to your key
Click download key pair and save it in your secured folder

13- After downloading key pair and saving your key, click launch instance.

14- You can see the launch status meanwhile.

15- You can also see the launch log.

16- Click on the Instances on the left pane where you can see the status of the instance.
Once the instance is up & running, you can see its status as running.

17- Review the description of your instance.

Log in EC2 Instance

18- Select instance and then click connect.

19- Click on get password.

20- Click choose file button.

21- Select your key pair you have downloading in earlier and then click OK.

22- Click Decrypt password.

23- Copy password and then click download remote desktop file

24- Click connect.

25- Paste password and then click ok.

26- Click yes

27- EC2 Instance (Windows Server 2019 desktop)

Please read my article on how to use Veeam Backup for AWS Free Edition.

Create an S3 Bucket, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) that provides durable, secure, and highly scalable object storage. To upload data such as documents photos and videos. First, we need to create a logical storage bucket in one of the AWS regions. Then we can easily upload any number of objects to it. Objects and buckets are resources; Amazon S3 provides both web console and APIs to manage them.

Create an S3 Bucket

To store backups in AWS S3 a new bucket must be created.

1- Once your account is set up login to your AWS console and select S3 from services menu.

2- Click the Create Bucket button to create a new S3 bucket that will be used to protect backup data.

3- Enter a Bucket name and then select Region.

4- Select Block all public access checkbox.

5- Scroll down the window under the advanced settings Object Lock section. Select permanently allow objects in this bucket to be locked and then click next.

6- To confirm the action enter enable in the field and click confirm.

7- Click Create Bucket.

8- The AWS S3 bucket has been created successfully and then Click the newly created bucket.

If you would like to automatically protect object versions stored in the bucket, you must specify the retention period.

Enable bucket retention mode

9- Go to Properties tab.

10- Under Advanced Settings click Object Lock.

11- To apply regularly default bucket retention to stored object versions, identify the retention mode (enable governance mode or compliance mode) & the Retention period then click Save.

12- Enter confirm then click Confirm.

13- Now the bucket is secured against deletion and can’t be overwritten.

AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

14- Select your account name and then select My Security Credentials.

15- Select new secret key

16- Here is the access key ID and secret access key.

Related: AWS S3 Object Lifecycle Management.

Please also read my article, How to Configure Network ACL in AWS.