Create EC2 instance

• EC2 Dashboard
• name and launch instance
• Ubuntu
• t2 type 1gb ram
• create key pair
• rsa, .pem format
• allow http and https traffic
• leave 8gb storage as is
• launch

Configure EC2 elastic ip

• EC2 Dashboard
• Elastic IPs
• allocate elastic ip address from Amazon’s pool of ipv4 addresses
• go to your newly created elastic ip > actions > associate elastic ip address > select instance > associate

Install wordpress LAMP dependencies and apply config

• connect via ssh, right click instance, connect, ssh, copy user, ip and use previously downloaded key pair using the the -i (identity file)
• Update system

sudo apt update