# How to host a static website in AWS EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services, that allows users to rent virtual computers to run their own computer applications. In layman's terms, imagine it as another computer in some location where we have remote access. It is designed to make Web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. **Let us Deploy a Static Website in EC2 ** (Prerequisite: AWS account ) Step1: Goto AWS Management Console, Search for EC2 instance and click on it. ![1.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665723497222/zR1STee5q.PNG align="left") Step2: On EC2 Dashboard Click on Launch instance ![2.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665723611544/x1tIupslX.PNG align="left") Step 3: Give a Name for the instance that you are going to create (e.g : MyDemoWebsite). You can also give additional tags. ![3.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665723838432/hbLQqlg3N.PNG align="left") Step4: Choose Amazon Linux 2 and Instance type t2.micro (Since i am using AWS Free tier) Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. Instance types include varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity. you can use any according to your needs. ![4.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665724320610/-iSDqVLIn.PNG align="left") ![5.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665724323985/F8-kiThyI.PNG align="left") Step5: Click on "Create a new pair" and give a name say "MyDemoWebsite" to it. ![6.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665724654938/r1EFMWWPR.PNG align="left") ![7.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665724657906/q6Vzf1Ce2.PNG align="left") ![8.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665724660746/BwbCw7kWL.PNG align="left") Now click "Download Key Pair" and note the folder where it gets downloaded as we will need it later. Step6: Add Storage Amazon EC2 stores data on a network-attached virtual disk called Elastic Block Store. You will launch the Amazon EC2 instance using a default 8 GiB disk volume but you can get up to 30 GiB in the free tier. This will be your root volume (also known as a 'boot' volume). ![10.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665724791793/V05jSI1A4.PNG align="left") Step7: Configure Security Group check all the three box - Allow SSH traffic from - Allow HTTPs traffic from the internet - Allow HTTP traffic from the internet This allows the external traffic from the internet to communicate with your instance. ![9.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665725128140/IWwEjpSZV.PNG align="left") **Note: There are other things to do as well since we are launching a simple static site so, we are considering basic requirements only** Step8: Click on Launch instances and wait till the instance is ready ![11.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665725382696/3mNYWEP03.PNG align="left") ![12.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665725386435/Tu5CwNZpX.PNG align="left") Step8: Click on your running instance and copy the Public IPv4 address (Note: This IP address changes every time we terminate and start the instance. So, we need to attach Elastic IP but we are not doing this for now) ![12.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665725605601/FVTVDzRW6.PNG align="left") ![13.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665725608747/Hbqw9Wqe6.PNG align="left") Step9: Connect the instance We have several different ways to connect to an instance using putty, PowerShell, and even directly through the Amazon Console. I have used PowerShell but you can use your convenient method. - Launch Powershell and go to the folder you have your "MyDemoWebsite.pem" file. - To connect your instance use the below structure ``` ssh -i ``` ``` ssh -i MyDemoWebsite.pem ec2-user@44.202.161.172 ``` and type *** yes *** you are now successfully connected to your instance ![14.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665726433960/T5H2MCZ-6.PNG align="left") Step10: Installing a Web Server - First elevate your privileges ``` sudo su ``` ![15.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665726546477/rKokoW6J9.PNG align="left") - Update all of the packages on the instance ``` yum install httpd -y ``` - Starting the webserver ``` service httpd start ``` Step11: Check server Status - Copy Public IPV4 of your Instance . ![13.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665726893091/bG_jGJie2.PNG align="left") - Paste this on your browser you will see a test page as shown below ![16.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665726932685/0KmumH3pY.PNG align="left") Step12: Adding static Website file By default, the apache web server will display the index.html file found in /var/www/html directory in the root path of your website so go to that directory. ``` cd /var/www/html ``` - Create index.html file ``` nano index.html ``` - Add contents to your HTML file ``` '

' Congratulations !! you have sucessfully deployed static website in amazon EC2

``` - Boom!! You are all Done . ![18.PNG](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1665727904866/1z4fua-4I.PNG align="left") **Thank you !!**