Hosting A PHP Web Application On AWS

Process (rough notes)

Create EC2 instance

Log in to AWS. Services > EC2 > Instances Launch Instance dropdown > Launch Instance Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Amazon Linux 2 AMI Step 2: Choose an Instance Type: General purpose t2.micro

• Click Review and Launch
• Next page click Launch

Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair

• Choose an existing key pair
• Consider using a single key pair for all AWS instances linked to a particular client (e.g. don't create a new key pair unless there's a compelling reason to do that).

After confirming the instance will be created and start running.

=== Configure EC2 instance

Return to EC2 Instances.

• The name of the new EC2 instance will be blank. Click to the right to edit.
• Click on Alarm Status cell to create an alarm.
  • Send a notifications to North_Rose_Devs_Status_Failed
  • Take the action: Recover this instance
  • Whenever: Status Check Failed (System)