EC2 Setup
Set up a Hop Node on EC2
Node Creation
Create an EC2 instance to run your Hop Node
On the AWS website
Sign into your AWS account
In the "services" search bar, type "EC2" and click on the first result
Click "Launch Instance"
Select "Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type"
Search for the instance type "m5.large" and select this instance
In "Key pair (login)" specify the key you want to use for SSH
In "Configure Storage", use 100GB and choose
gp3
.Click "Launch instance"
Click "Launch Instances"
In the Terminal on your local machine
Navigate to the directory where you downloaded your .pem file (for example, try
cd ~/Downloads
)Run the following commands to set up your Hop Node directory and server access.
i. Create .ssh directory if not existing already:
ii. Move .pem file to the ssh directory:
iii: Change the permission of the .pem file for SSH:
On the AWS website
Navigate to your EC2 instances (this should be the page you were on last)
Select your instance and click the "Connect" button
Choose "SSH client"
Copy the last line labeled "Example"
In the Terminal on your local machine
Paste the command you copied and run it
When prompted, type "yes" and click enter
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