🚀 Day 06: Launching My First EC2 Instance and deploy an webserver

I finally launched my first virtual server using Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) — one of the most essential AWS services!

What I Did:

• Created a t2.micro EC2 instance (Free Tier eligible)

• Selected Amazon Linux 2 AMI

• Generated a key pair to connect securely

• Connected to my EC2 instance using PuTTY (on Windows)

• Installed a basic web server with:

    bashCopyEditsudo yum update -y
    sudo yum install httpd -y
    sudo systemctl start httpd
  

Result:

I accessed my public IP in the browser and saw my custom message live!

What I Learned:

• EC2 is a virtual server in the cloud — you have full control over it.

• Security groups work like firewalls. I had to allow HTTP (port 80) for my site to work.

• You need a .ppk file and PuTTY to SSH into EC2 on Windows.

Final output: