AWS

1. What you get with AWS
2. How the integration works
3. Good to know

Amazon Web Services is the biggest cloud on the planet: more than thirty regions, hundreds of instance types and the deepest service catalogue in the industry. That scale is also what makes it hard work — IAM policies, security groups, VPCs and a console that takes an afternoon to learn. Rocketeers gives you the short path. Bring your own AWS credentials and it provisions EC2 instances configured for production, while everything keeps running in your account, on your bill, under your control.

#What you get with AWS

• EC2 servers provisioned in any AWS region, close to your users or your data.
• A choice of instance families, from burstable t-series boxes for staging to compute-optimised machines for busy production sites.
• A production-ready stack — Nginx, PHP and your database — installed and configured without touching the console.
• Your own account, so existing credits, savings plans and organisation billing all still apply.
• Room to grow: resize or add servers as traffic climbs, without re-architecting anything.

#How the integration works

Create an IAM user with access limited to EC2, generate an access key pair and add the credentials to Rocketeers. From there Rocketeers talks to the EC2 API on your behalf: it launches the instance, sets up SSH access and security group rules for web traffic, installs the server stack and keeps the machine patched. You never hand over your root account, and you can revoke the key in IAM at any moment.

#Good to know

• EC2 is billed on demand, but bandwidth out of AWS is charged separately — factor egress into your estimates for media-heavy sites.
• New AWS accounts have modest vCPU quotas per region; if you plan to run several servers, request a quota increase early, as approval can take a day or two.
• Use a dedicated IAM user for Rocketeers rather than your personal credentials. It keeps the audit trail clean and makes revocation painless.
• Prices differ between regions — identical instances can cost noticeably more outside the big US regions, so region choice affects your bill as well as your latency.