Install the Apache web server with PHP and MariaDB support on your EC2 instance.

Use a dynamic DNS provider with Amazon EC2 and configure the instance to update the IP address associated with a public DNS name each time the instance starts.

Troubleshooting connection issues with your Windows instance

The following is an introduction to key components of Amazon EC2 and how a Windows instance compares to running Windows Server on premises.

Get started with Amazon EC2. Learn to launch, connect to, and use a Linux instance.

You can quickly remap an Elastic IP address from one instance to another to work around problems with your instance or software.

Use Amazon EC2 for scalable computing capacity in the AWS Cloud so you can develop and deploy applications without hardware constraints.

You can configure Amazon CloudWatch action based recovery to add recovery actions to Amazon CloudWatch alarms. CloudWatch action based recovery works with the StatusCheckFailed_System metric. CloudWatch action based recovery provides to-the-minute recovery response time granularity and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications of recovery actions and outcomes. These configuration options allow for faster recovery attempts with more granular control over the system status check failure event response compared to simplified automatic recovery. For more information on available CloudWatch options, see

Your security groups use connection tracking to track information about traffic to and from the instance. Rules are applied based on the connection state of the traffic to determine if the traffic is allowed or denied. With this approach, security groups are stateful. This means that responses to inbound traffic are allowed to flow out of the instance regardless of outbound security group rules, and vice versa.

Modify your Reserved Instances and continue to benefit from your capacity reservation and billing benefit when your computing needs change.