AWS Security Cookbook

How to do it...

We can set up a simple Apache web server on an EC2 instance at launch using EC2 user data as follows:

1. Go to the EC2 dashboard and click on Instances from the left sidebar. Click on the Launch Instance button at the top of the page, select Amazon Linux 2 AMI, set Type to t2.micro, and click Next: Configure Instance Details.
2. On the Configure Instance Details page, leave the Network, Subnet, and Auto-assign Public IP settings with their default values and scroll down to the Advanced Details section.
3. In the User data textbox under the Advanced Details section, enter the following text:

#!/bin/bashsudo suyum update -yyum install -y httpd systemctl start httpd.service systemctl enable httpd.service

The Advanced Details section ...