one of the first things you should try is launching an EC2 instance and hosting a simple website. In this guide, we’ll create an EC2 instance, install a web server, and access it from the public internet.

Step 1 — Launch EC2 Instance

Go to AWS Console
Open EC2 Dashboard
Click Launch Instance

Configure:

Name

My-Web-Server

AMI

Amazon Linux 2023

Instance type

t2.micro (Free tier)

Step 2 — Configure Security Group

Allow SSH and HTTP traffic:
type – ssh & http is in port 22 & 88 sorce is my ip and anywhere

This allows:

SSH login
Public web access

Step 3 — Connect to EC2

Use EC2 Instance Connect web browser on console :

throught the above connect option present in it

Step 4 — Install Apache Web Server

Update packages

sudo yum update -y

Install Apache

sudo yum install httpd -y

Start server

sudo systemctl start httpd

Enable auto start

sudo systemctl enable httpd

Step 5 — Create Simple Website

Create index file:

sudo nano /var/www/html/index.html

Enter the html code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>My EC2 Website</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Hello from EC2 </h1>
    <p>My HTML is working!</p>
</body>
</html>

Save and exit.

Step 6 — Access Website from Internet

Copy Public IPv4 address
Open in browser:

http://your-public-ip

Example:

http://13.60.156.82

You should see:

Hello from EC2 
My first AWS hosted website

Architecture

Browser → Internet → EC2 Public IP → Apache → HTML Page

Common Issue (IMPORTANT)

If website not loading:
Check Security Group:
Wrong:

HTTP 80 → 0.0.0.0/32

Correct:

HTTP 80 → 0.0.0.0/0

This allows internet access.

Useful Commands

Check server status

sudo systemctl status httpd

Restart server

sudo systemctl restart httpd

Stop server

sudo systemctl stop httpd

What i Learned from this is

✅ Launch EC2 instance
✅ Configure security group
✅ Install Apache web server
✅ Deploy HTML page
✅ Access from internet