Let's get SSH access, instal a package, and run a server.
As of December 2023 on a
t2.micro
instance, the only one part of free tier at the time with advertised 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM, 8 GiB disk for the first 12 months, on Ubuntu 22.04:$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 949Mi 149Mi 210Mi 0.0Ki 590Mi 641Mi
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
$ nproc
1
$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 7.6G 1.8G 5.8G 24% /
To install software:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cowsay
cowsay asdf
Once HTTP inbound traffic is enabled on security rules for port 80, you can:and then you are able to
while true; do printf "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n`date`: hello from AWS" | sudo nc -Nl 80; done
curl
from your local computer and get the response.