🚀 Hosting Your First Website on AWS EC2 with Elastic IP

When I first started exploring AWS, I wanted to try something simple yet powerful: hosting my own website on an EC2 instance. In this blog, I’ll walk you through how I created a personal web server using EC2, Apache, and Elastic IP — all from scratch.

🌐 Hosting a Simple Website on AWS EC2 :

1 ) Launch an EC2 Instance

• 🖥️ Choose Amazon Linux 2 (Free Tier eligible).

• ⚡ Instance type: t2.micro.

• 🔑 Download the key pair (.pem file).

  

2)Connect to the Instance using SSH

ssh -i your-key.pem ec2-user@<public-ip>

3)Install Apache Web Server (✅ Apache will be now running)

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install httpd -y
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd

4)Create a Simple HTML Page

echo "<h1>Hello from my EC2 Server 🚀</h1>" | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html

5)Update Security Group Rules

• 🔒 Add inbound rule for HTTP (Port 80)

• 🌍 Source: 0.0.0.0/0 (Anywhere).

6)Assign an Elastic IP

• ⚙️ Go to Elastic IPs → Allocate new IP.

• 🔗 Associate it with your EC2 instance.

  

7)Access the Website

🌍 Open in browser:

http://<your-elastic-ip>

🎉 Your site is live

⭐ Why Elastic IP is Better than Default Public IP

• 🔄 Default public IP changes every time you stop/start the instance.

• 📌 Elastic IP is static and stays permanent.

• 🌐 Useful when hosting websites or mapping a custom domain.