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Created March 20, 2017 23:49
Point Domain to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance

Point Domain to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Instance

  1. Open the Amazon Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/.
  2. If you are new to Amazon Route 53, you see a welcome page; choose Get Started Now for DNS Management. Otherwise, choose Hosted Zones in the navigation pane.
  3. Choose Create Hosted Zone.
  4. For Domain Name, type your domain name.
  5. Choose Create.
  6. Click the Hosted Zone, edit record set.
  7. In the value, add ec2-54-152-134-146.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
  8. Change your DNS file to point to the IPv4 address (This would be in something like GoDaddy).
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keithweaver / setting-up-lamp-ec2.md
Created March 20, 2017 22:48
Setting up a LAMP stack on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2

Setting Up EC2

  1. Sign into AWS
  2. Open EC2
  3. Click Instances on Left Side
  4. Click "Launch Instance"
  5. Select "Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09.1 (HVM), SSD Volume Type"
  6. Select Free Tier
  7. Click review and launch
  8. Press Launch