AWS LAMP Server
- Travis Cummings
Introduction
This how-to guide contains instructions for creating a LAMP server on AWS using the free tier. A LAMP server is (L)inux, (A)pache, (M)ySQL, (P)HP.
AWS
AWS is Amazon's cloud-hosting platform. AWS offers many hosted systems for free or a small fee. Systems include web servers, database servers, routers, gateways, load balancers, and much more. If you would like to try out AWS, there is a free tier.
| AWS | https://aws.amazon.com/ |
|---|---|
| AWS Free Tier | https://aws.amazon.com/free/ |
| AWS EC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/?nc2=h_m1 |
| AWS Elastic Beanstalk | https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/?nc2=h_m1 |
LAMP Server
If you would like to try out AWS as a hosting option, we suggest creating a free tier EC2 instance and configuring a LAMP server on that instance. See this excellent tutorial for details:
If you do not require PHP or MySQL, you can skip those packages and steps.
*Note: Free tier instances begin charging fees after 12 months. To avoid the fees, make sure to delete your free tier instance before 12 months.