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This document outlines steps to host a website on AWS using EC2 instances, an auto scaling group, application load balancer, WAF, and CloudWatch monitoring. It describes creating a launch template, auto scaling group, load balancer, target groups, WAF configuration, and a CloudWatch dashboard to monitor performance.

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This document outlines steps to host a website on AWS using EC2 instances, an auto scaling group, application load balancer, WAF, and CloudWatch monitoring. It describes creating a launch template, auto scaling group, load balancer, target groups, WAF configuration, and a CloudWatch dashboard to monitor performance.

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Mini project 1:

Hosting a website on AWS EC2


Instance with Auto Scaling group,
Application Load Balancer and Web
Application Firewall (WAF) and
Monitor with Cloud Watch and Add
Simple Notification Service (SNS) for
it.
Crate launch template
Step 1: Crate launch template.

Step 2: Add user data in template


➢ Add web server(apache2)
➢ Download the website code file in it.
➢ Unzip the code file.
Create auto scaling group from launch
template.
Step 3: Create auto scaling group.

Step 4: Define name and template.


Step 5: Choose instance launch options.
➢Select availability zones and subnets.

Step 6: Configure advanced options.


➢ Add application Load balancer option.
Step 7: Add load balancer and target group

Step 8: Configure group size and scaling.


➢ Select the minimum, desired and maximum
capacity.
Step 9: Add notifications.
➢ Create a new topic.
➢ Enter name and endpoint user email.

Step 10: Add tags and review.


➢Click on create Auto Scaling groups.
Application load balancer is automatically created

Step 11: New target group is automatically created.

Step 12: New Application Load Balancer is created


automatically.
Check Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Step 13: Check SNS service.
➢ New topic and subscription is created.

Step 14: Confirm subscription email


Step 15: We get the notification mail of launch an
instance.

Step 16: Access the webpage though the load balancer


DNS.
Add web application firewall
Step 17: Add Web Application Firewall (WAF) to load
balancer.
➢ Go to the navigation panel and select WAF.

Step 18: Crate IP sets.


Step 19: IP set details.
➢ Enter IP set rule name
➢ Choose region and IP version
➢ Add the IP address list

Step 20: Create web ACL (access control list)


Step 21: Describe web ACL and associate it to AWS
resources

➢ Add AWS resources


Step 22: Add rule and rule groups

Step 23: Set rule priority.


Step 24: Configure metrics

Step 25: Review and create web ACL


Step 26: Web ACL is created
Step 27: Check the result
Try to access a load balancer from the IP which is
define in the IP sets rules group
We get 403 forbidden message because WAF block
that IP.
403 Forbidden error, it means that you do not have
permission to view the requested file or resource.
Step 28:
From WEB ACL we filter the traffic and check all
details
Like blocked, allowed IP, Sample of bot detection,
client device types, attack type, top 10 countries, etc.
Add cloud watch: monitor the system
services from the cloud watch.

Step 29: Create a dashboard.


➢ Define the name to dashboard.

Step 30: Add the widget.


Step 31: Select metrics graph.

Step.32: Add the selected metrics graph to widget.


Step 33: Monitor the system performance.

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