Working with Amazon Lightsail instances in the AWS Cloud9 IDE

Open and then sign in to the Lightsail console, at https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com.

We recommend you sign in using credentials for an IAM administrator user in your AWS account. If you can't sign in as an IAM administrator user, check with your AWS account administrator.

If prompted, choose the language to use in the console, and then choose Save.

If prompted, choose Let's get started.

On the home page, with the Instances tab already selected, choose Create instance.

For Instance location, make sure that the location is an AWS Region AWS Cloud9 is available that you want to create the instance in. For more information, see AWS Cloud9 in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. To change the AWS Region, Availability Zone, or both, choose Change AWS Region and Availability Zone, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

For Pick your instance image, with Linux/Unix already chosen for Select a platform, and Apps + OS already chosen for Select a blueprint, choose a blueprint.

For Choose your instance plan, choose a plan, or leave the selected default plan.

For Name your instance, enter a name for the instance, or leave the suggested default name.

For the number of instances, enter the number of instances you want to create, or leave the default of a single instance (x 1).

Choose Create.

With the Lightsail console still open from the previous step, on the Instances tab, in the card for the instance, choose the instance's name.

On the Connect tab, for Connect using your own SSH client, note the Public IP and User name values, as you need them later.

Choose Connect using SSH.

Make sure that the instance has the latest system updates. To do this, in the terminal session that appears, run the command sudo apt update .

Check to see if Python is installed, and if it is, check to be sure the version is 2.7. To check the version, run the command python --version , and note the version number that appears. If no version number appears, or if the version isn't 2.7, install Python 2.7 on the instance by running the command sudo apt install -y python-minimal .

Check to see if Node.js is installed, and if it is, check that the version is 0.6.16 or later. To check the version, run the command node --version , and note the version number that appears. If no version number appears, or the version isn't 0.6.16 or later, we recommend you use Node Version Manager (nvm) to install Node.js on the instance.

To do this, run the following commands one at a time, in the following order, to update the instance, install Node Version Manager (nvm) on the instance, activate nvm on the instance, and then install the latest version of Node.js on the instance.

sudo apt update
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
. ~/.bashrc
nvm install node

Run the command which node, and note the value that appears. You will need it later.

Download and run the AWS Cloud9 Installer on the instance.

With the terminal session still open from the previous step, sign in to the AWS Cloud9 console, as follows:

In the AWS Cloud9 console, choose the AWS Region that matches the one you created the instance in frameworks.

If a welcome page is displayed, for New AWS Cloud9 environment, choose Create environment. Otherwise, choose Create environment.

Or:

On the Name environment page, for Name, enter a name for your environment.

Add a description to your environment in the Description field.

For Environment type choose Existing compute. This is important as you need to select this option to display the User and Host options.

For User, enter the User name value that you noted earlier.

For Host, enter the Public IP value that you noted earlier.

For Port, leave the default value of 22.

Expand Additional details.

For Environment path, enter the path that AWS Cloud9 starts from after login, which is ~/. This is the root of the user's home directory.

For Node.js binary path, enter the value of the command which node that you noted earlier.

Leave SSH jump host blank.

Store the public SSH key that AWS Cloud9 creates for this environment in your system clipboard. To do this, choose Copy key to clipboard.

Save the public SSH key value you just copied to the instance. To do this, use vi, a popular text editor, which is already installed on the instance:

Back in the AWS Cloud9 console, choose Next step.

On the Review choices page, choose Create environment. Wait while AWS Cloud9 creates your environment and then displays the AWS Cloud9 IDE for the environment. This can take several minutes.