Deploy Your First Node.js App on AWS EC2 Without NGINX (Beginner Friendly) EC2 without using NGINX —💻🔥🚀

🧠 Prerequisites

AWS account

Basic Node.js knowledge

Terminal and VS Code installed

GitHub account (for code upload)

## 🪄 Step 1: Create EC2 Instance
Go to AWS EC2 Dashboard → Launch Instance

Choose Ubuntu (20.04 preferred)

Instance type: t2.micro (free tier)

Key pair: Create or download .pem file (e.g., my-webserver-kp.pem)

In Security Group, allow inbound rule for:

SSH (22)

HTTP (80)

Custom TCP (3000)

Launch the instance

🌐 Step 2: Allocate Elastic IP

Go to EC2 → Elastic IP → Allocate

Associate Elastic IP with your instance

✅ This gives your server a permanent IP address

## 🔐 Step 3: Connect to EC2 via SSH (Windows)
Open Git Bash or terminal

Go to .pem file location:
cd /Downloads
Set permission (Linux/macOS only):

chmod 400 my-webserver-kp.pem//your key pair name
Connect to EC2:

ssh -i "my-webserver-kp.pem" ubuntu@

## ⚙️ Step 4: Setup Node.js & Git
Inside EC2 terminal:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs npm git -y
node -v
npm -v

## 📦 Step 5: Clone Your Project

git clone https://github.com//.git
cd
npm install

🚀 Step 6: Run Your App with PM2

Install PM2:

sudo npm install -g pm2
Run your server:

pm2 start index.js

pm2 reload all

pm2 status

🧪 Step 7: Visit Your App

Open browser and visit:

http://:3000
Congrats 🎉 You’ve got your app live on the internet!

Conclusion
You’ve just deployed a backend server to AWS EC2 without needing Docker, NGINX, or complex CI/CD. It’s raw, simple, and effective — perfect for learning and practice.

Next Steps:

Use NGINX to run on port 80/443 (for domain & SSL)

Add MongoDB with Atlas

Deploy frontend (React/Vite) using S3 or EC2 + NGINX