Looking for feedback/practices when standing up ColdFusion 2021 in AWS. Now we know there is the AWS AMI for ColdFusion (Windows) which shows cost of $0.46/hr to start with, but what about installing it directly on an EC2 using S3 and some RDS of choice? What are some pitfalls experienced along the way? What are configuration choices when hosting on an EC2 that we should be aware of? Is it easier to get it setup in Linux/Apache? What do you use for the local DEV before pushing PROD to AWS, CF Docker?

Hi, I have exactly what you are asking about. I have a AWS EC2 server (linux) with CF2018 and MySQL 8.x on it. I actually didn't do anything special. I installed the server using the command line instructions. Once installed, I did a ssh tunnel to port 8500 from my local dev machine. Created all the datasource connections, made sure all the latest patches were applied, ran the wsconfig utility so Apache would be connected to TomCat (Jakarta) and we were off to the races. Actually not that hard (if I remember). When I was done with the ssh tunnel, I closed the connection and the tunnel goes away. Just remember to be the ec2user for the installation. I didn't really find anything that I remember being difficult to handle. Now, CF2021 is a little easier because they have the ability to select which 'packages' you want to install but should be relatively easy. I hope that helps.