EC2 access

We're creating one Ubuntu machine on AWS, then SSHing in from your laptop. Click along with me — don't skip ahead.

1 · Open EC2

1. Sign in at https://console.aws.amazon.com
2. Search bar up top → type EC2 → open it
3. Check the region (top-right). Something like Mumbai ap-south-1 is fine — just stay there for everything else

2 · Launch instance

1. Left sidebar → Instances → Launch instances
2. Name: club-portal-api
3. AMI: Quick Start → Ubuntu → Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS · 64-bit (x86)
4. Instance type: t3.micro (or t2.micro if that's your free-tier option)
5. Key pair: Create new → name club-portal → RSA → .pem → download it once and don't lose it

3 · Security group

Under Network settings → Edit:

1. Auto-assign public IP: Enable
2. Create a security group named club-portal-sg
3. Inbound rules:

Leave port 4000 closed to the internet. Nginx will talk to Express on localhost later.

4. Storage: default 8 GiB is enough
5. Launch instance → wait for Running and 2/2 checks passed

4 · Grab the IP

Select the instance → copy Public IPv4 address.
(Before a real domain, allocate an Elastic IP and associate it — that IP won't vanish when you stop/start.)

5 · SSH in

chmod 400 ~/Downloads/club-portal.pem
ssh -i ~/Downloads/club-portal.pem ubuntu@PASTE_PUBLIC_IP

First time, type yes. Then:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Database stays on Neon. This box just runs Node, Nginx, and PM2.