![]() If you haven’t used ssh before, it should be built in to Terminal on macOS and any flavor of Linux. Note the IP address of your server Install Minecraft Server You’ll need this both to ssh in to your server and to put in the Minecraft client to connect once your server is running. Now go back to the EC2 console and note the public IP address of your server. Add three new rules and click “Save rules”. Then click “Save Rules” to finish the inbound network settings. You can restrict the addresses in the “Source” column, but then you need to know the IP addresses of any the players you intend to have join your server and will have to update these settings if your players’ IP addresses change. Custom UDP port 19132-19133 from any address.Edit the inbound rules for your instance’s security group. Now select the security group with the same name you clicked on, select the “Inbound rules” tab, and click the “Edit inbound rules” button. With your new instance selected, click on its “launch-wizard-X” security group. Click on the launch-wizard-X link next to “Security groups”. While we’re here, we’ll set the inbound network rules for our security group. Remember to stop your instance when you’re done. If you select Terminate, the server will be gone forever and you’ll have to start over with a new one. You can do the same thing and select Start to restart it later. When you’re done with it, be sure to click Actions -> Instance State -> Stop. WARNING: You will be charged for any time your server is running. There’s also a button on the bottom right hand corner you can click to view your instances. Once the progress screen finishes you can go back to the EC2 console to view your new instance. The location doesn’t matter but you’ll have to use the location later. Create a new key pair, give it a name indicating that it’s for your minecraft server, and click “Download Key Pair”. This will let you ssh in to your instance once it’s launched. ![]() You’ll get a popup prompting you to create a key pair. I used t3a.large.Ĭlick “Review and Launch” and then on the next page “Launch” to accept the defaults. Select Ubuntu 18.04 Select a general purpose instance type. But the t3a.large only costs about 8 cents an hour and you can shut it off when you’re not using it. The free tier, t2.micro, probably doesn’t have enough compute or RAM to run minecraft well. I selected the Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS server for x86 and a t3a.large instance type. Select “Launch Instance” from the EC2 console There are instructions for other OSes here.įirst, go to the AWS console (amazon account required), go to the EC2 section, and click to launch an instance. You could use a different OS and/or a different hosting service. I’m going to use an Ubuntu server running on AWS.
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