Installing Magento in Amazon EC2

In this section, we will set up a server in Amazon from scratch. The server will be ready for Magento with all the requirements and dependencies installed, so you can manage your first Magento development server.

Setting up the Amazon AWS account

The first step is setting up your Amazon AWS account to create the server instance in Amazon EC2.

In order to do this, you should follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Amazon AWS homepage at https://aws.amazon.com/. It will look something like this:

    Setting up the Amazon AWS account

  2. Click on Create an AWS Account.
  3. Add your e-mail or phone number and select I am a new user.:

  4. Click on Sign in using our secure server ...

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