🚧Build AWS EC2 Instance
Amazon Web Services Specific Build Process
Before we begin
Please make sure you created your SSH key pairs prior to starting these steps.
🔐SSH Remote AccessVPS Build Procedure
Creating your account on AWS is a simple process similar to all other SaaS model services. At the current time, we will leave this process up to you.
Create SSH Keys
If you have not yet created your SSH keys, please follow the instructions at the link below to generate your public and private key pair:
Once you have successfully generated your SSH keys, return here and continue to the next step.
Access Key Pair Console
Choose Key Pairs
from the Network & Security
section

Choose Actions
and Import key pair

Decide on a key pair name that you will use to identify your key pair later.
You should have already created your SSH KEYS, if not, please do so and return to this step.
Click the
Browse
to navigate to your public key on your local system, select that key and chooseOpen

Import key pair

You will be returned to the Key pairs
console and should see your key pair in the list (table) of the console with details about the key.
Create your rules
From the Inbound rules
select Add rule

Select Type
SSH
Please refer to Wide Open SSH Access document for details on the security implications of allowing any system that is connected to the internet to have access to your
SSH
port. This document contains instructions on how to determine your local IP address for entry in this section.Destination choose
Custom
We will assume you decided to use a static IP address, in this example our static IP address is 13.13.13.13/32 ( Do NOT use this address, it is an example only. ) Type in
13.13.13.13/32
into the box and the blue CIDR block item will auto-populate, select it.
Choose the
Add rule
again.
This rule is designed for both a Hypergraph hybrid layer validator DAG layer1 and a Dor data layer 1 nodes.
Select Type
Custom TCP
Port Range
9010-9011
Destination
Anywhere-IPv4
Hypergraph Hybrid Nodes ONLY
This rule is designed for validator Hypergraph layer0 nodes.
Choose the
Add rule
againSelect Type
Custom TCP
Port Range
9000-9001
Destination
Anywhere-IPv4
Click the
Create security group
button

You will be returned to the security group console and you should see your security group in the list table.
Complete
You have successfully launched a VPS instance in AWS, Congratulations
You are now ready to continue to connect to your node for the first time, install nodectl and turn your EC2 instance (VPS) into a Constellation Network Validator Node!
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