Deploy .NET to AWS

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Deploying a ASP.NET core website to Amazon Web Services

Bring up a secure web site deployment with a minimum of fuss.
At first the challenge is getting the Web Site working well.
The assumption here is that the design is not fully fleshed out as the User Experience needs to be functional before it can be fully evaluated.
Later the problem is to get the performance to be good while the deployment expands to multiple instances.

The largest part of the problem is not getting the web site to run, but rather to ensure that it is secure using SSL certificates and HTTPS.

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was selected as the resource for its ease of deployment and expansion to handle volume.
Elastic Beanstalk (EB) automates some of the deployment and expansion services for EC2. Creating and Deploying Elastic Beanstalk Applications in .NET Using AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.
Terminating HTTPS on Amazon EC2 Instances Running .NET on single instances (not behind a load balancer.)

It is possible to install and run AWS PowerShell tools to see what EC2 instances look like. (An instance is one server running the site.)
It is also possible to look at EB, but that requires the local computer to enable Python and PIP.
Windows Remote Desktop can be enabled to see what the EC2 instance really looks like. Clink here for information on Connecting to Your Windows Instance.
- You will need to have the RDP client installed on Windows, which is common, or on other operating systems, which is uncommon.
- You need a key pair - using AWS PowerShell these are the instructions for the EC2Key pair cmdlet if you have not already created a pem file for this purpose. You can only retrieve the private key when you create the key pair, so be sure to save the key to a file.
- You will need to open the port on EC2 for RDP inbound traffic Adding a Rule for Inbound RDP Traffic to a Windows Instance
- One easy way to start the RDP client is to navigate to the EC2 console, select the instance to be view and click on the "Connect" button at the top. A RDP connection string will be downloaded that you can put in a convenient place, like your desktop.