How to use AWS to host your instance

Commands to run after setting up VM:

Check server info: lscpu

Check memory: free -m

uname -a

vi /etc/redhat-release

sudo passwd - Change root password

Connect to AWS Instance:
1. Use Puttygen to convert private key
2. Use Winscp to upload tomcat
3. Use unzip to unzip the tomcat
4.

Installation:

1.  Install JDK 7 on VM

2.  Install Tomcat 7 on VM

3.  Setup Load Balancer

4.  Setup DNS Information

Test Ports with Telnet:

Open AWS:
ec2-54-183-81-184.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080

Install JDK7:
sudo yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel
Setup java_home

Install Telnet:
http://nixcraft.com/showthread.php/12483-Install-Telnet-on-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux


Install Mysql Client on EC2:
Desc: This is good to troubleshoot the connectivity between EC2 and RDS
yum install mysql
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5287220/is-there-a-way-to-only-install-the-mysql-client-linux

Can't connect from EC2 to RDS:
1. It is caused by enviornment configuration in spring, not by network.