Mastering ASP.NET Web API

Publishing a web API to EC2 on AWS

In the previous section, we build the Docker image packtcontactsapi for our ASP.NET Core Web API project. In this section, we will run this Docker image on the AWS EC2 container service.

Docker images are prebuilt with all required runtimes, which reduces the efforts of the published application to set up the environment.

Create an AWS account and move to the EC2 Container Service section. Follow the steps (they are quiet easy) and you will be presented with commands to push the Docker image to AWS EC2. The commands are shown in the following screenshot:

AWS push commands to Docker images

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