SSH Access

• Configure the Security Group to open Inbound TCP port 22 from your location.
• Use an SSH client (for example: https://www.putty.org ) to connect to the instance's IP on the port 22.
• Authenticate to the instance using the key pair selected during the instance launch. The user name is ubuntu.

LAMP Stack information

The Apache root folder is /var/www/html

Mysql root password is the instance id.

Run sudo mysql_secure_installation to finalize secure Mysql instalation and change the default password.

Additional Information

Monitoring the Health of the instance

• Navigate to your Amazon EC2 console and verify that you're in the correct region.
• Choose Instance and select your launched instance.
• Select the server to display your metadata page and choose the Status checks tab at the bottom of the page to review if your status checks passed or failed.

Data Encryption

• This image does not provide encryption by default at the Operating System or Application level, customers are encouraged to enable EBS encryption during the Instance Launch: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html 
• EBS Encryption using the Default key enables key rotation - More details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html#kms-key-rotation  - Using EBS encryption, the decryption is done automatically when using the instance.
• Customer data can be saved anywhere in the instance, however it is a good practice to save user data (including sensitive data) in the /home/ directory.

Arara Security Considerations