Hey everyone, super excited to share a major milestone: I just successfully launched my very first server on Amazon Web Services (AWS)! After lots of learning, tinkering, and a few head-scratching moments, it feels incredible to see it up and running. I primarily used Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), starting with a t2.micro instance and opting for Amazon Linux 2 as the operating system. Navigating the essential steps of setting up a secure key pair for SSH access and configuring security groups to control inbound/outbound traffic (only allowing SSH from my IP for now, naturally!) was a key learning. Successfully connecting via SSH from my local machine and running some basic commands to verify everything felt like a huge win. My initial takeaways are how amazing it is to spin up powerful compute resources so quickly, the immediate clarity of the importance of security (Security Groups and IAM are paramount!), and how incredibly comprehensive and helpful the AWS documentation is. This is just the beginning of my cloud journey, and I'm already planning to experiment with deploying a simple web application, exploring other AWS services like S3 for storage and possibly RDS for a database, and getting a deeper understanding of monitoring tools like CloudWatch.
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Congrats, getting that first EC2 up always feels like unlocking a whole new toolbox. What web app are you thinking of deploying next?
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