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Objectives
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  1. Create a "free-tier" eligible Linux instance. Be careful to choose the Linux image that is free-tier eligible to avoid incurring charges related to your instance.
  2. Using SSH on the terminal or SSH through Putty, connect to your EC2 instance

    Take a screenshot of the ssh connection.

  3. Install Apache2
  4. Create an .html file and put the file in your webserver root directory. Make sure to include your name inside an h1 tag within your .html file. Other than your name, there are no specific requirements of what your .html should look like
  5. Open your EC2 instance firewall to allow http (port 80) traffic to access your EC2 instance
  6. Access your site through a browser.

    Take a screenshot of your rendered page including the address bar to verify that you file is running through your EC2 instance.

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