script is written in bash and to use the amazon CLI to start the instance

download both LaunchAWSinstance.sh & bootstrap.sh

1- LaunchAWSinstance.sh

• in order to launch a new instance with specific capacity and OS, an Amazon AMI id of company's should be passed as a parameter
• script will 1st create a security group in the required region , by default the 443 port is closed for inbound access as long as its not opened
• script will create a keypair file to be used for SSH access
• script will open SSH port
• when starting the EC2 instance , bootstrap script well be executed to apply the needed installs and configurations

2 bootstrap .sh

• update ubuntu OS
• download and install defualt JDK & JRE
• install nginx and allow acces for HTTPS
• Download hello.jar file
• create systemd service for the jar file
• configure Nginx and create SSL Certificate
• when creating SSL Certificate you will be asked for SSL certifacte parameters to be entered
• start and enable nginx service on port 443

needed libraries

• install required python pip to be able to use AWS CLI on your local machine

sudo apt-get install -y python python-pip

pip install awscli --upgrade --user

How To Run

$ chmod 775 LaunchAWSinstance.sh bootstrap.sh 

$ ./LaunchAWSinstance.sh ami-xxxx