Nginx Reverse Proxy on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2

Install and set up an nginx reverse proxy on an Amazon Linux 2 ec2 instance.

• https://www.nginx.com/blog/setting-up-nginx/
• https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-ddos-attacks-with-nginx-and-nginx-plus/
• http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html

sudo amazon-linux-extras install nginx1 -y
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx

sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

server {
  location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
  }
}