AWS Land S3 and EC2

Checkmarks for this year: S3 deployed static files, and aliased a domain with Route 53. Setup Nginx on an EC2 instance, and configured the Elastic IP and the domain name and the nginx configs to work together.

Interesting stuff. Tough/challenging too. Would like to also figure out how to deploy gitlab and owncloud on ec2. Don’t know if its how I’ve set things up, security/ports, or a “droppy” internet connection, but the ssh session keeps on freezing for ec2. Arg…

I’m liking though doing the research. Even while researching gitlab, and then scaling back to just deploy a git remote, I’m learning more about git server side.

There’s a lot of documentation out there. Including a lot from digitalocean. Hum…the reviews are good, but honestly, I don’t know if I want to spend more money than I have with some free EC2 micro tier instances, and I got a AWS gift card somewhere to use. Maybe I’ll fork over the cash for digitalocean sometime. It may be simpler to use, but gosh, AWS seems like the industry standard.

JL