Create new instance

Instance type

Select keypairs

View instance

Open some ports

Setup the server

Install chef and everything

curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | bash && apt-get install git -y && git clone https://github.com/serialdoom/aws_cookbook.git && cd aws_cookbook* && chef-solo -c solo.rb -j web.json

Visit web page

Software used

• Backup with rsnapshot
• Monitoring with aws internal infrastructure or nagios
• nmap, port scanner
• logwatch, get emailed the interesting stuff
• Security
  • disable password auth, deny root login
  • khunter, scan for rootkits
  • chkrootkit, scan for rootkits
  • tiger, scan for security issues
  • fail2ban, ssh bruteforce attacks