Easy Minecraft Server Setup on AWS

Hello everyone today I’m just going to give a brief tutorial on how to set up and run a Minecraft server for relatively cheap using Amazon web services so going head over to AWS just type that in you want to go to this aws.amazon.com I’ve already set up an account so I’m

Just going to log back in but go through the steps to sign up yours will not look like mine what you want to go to is the search bar up here go to ec2 open this up click launch instance name this whatever you like I’ll name it Minecraft [Applause]

Server leave it as Amazon Linux it’s really easy to use this is kind of where you can get pretty custom customizable um this is the free tier it’s not going to be enough for a server to run unfortunately so to start out you can either do T2 medium or T2 large um

This tells you how many CPUs there are and how many gigs of RAM there is I’ll just go up to four gigs I’ll show you how you can also upgrade it later on you’ll want to do a key pair just title this whatever you want I’ll just do Minecraft server

Connect create new key pair this next step is important you can also set it up later but I’ll just do it right here for the network settings here we go just click edit you’re going to want to add a security group rule leave it as custom

TCP you can just put in the default Port right there Source you just do that description pretty much just allows everyone in the internet to connect through this port the Minecraft server you’ll also want to do UDP exact same thing just leave that right there and you can just leave everything else the

Way it is and click launch instance let it load up come over here to connect to instance this is going to be how you actually connect to it I’ll show you the very lucrative way to do it just come in here to terminal um make sure you drag This

Server connect Z to your desktop just rename this for ease of access go back here change the address to wherever you placed that Minecraft server connect. pem file paste this in Click enter type in yes right here you’ll see you’ll get an unprotective key file that’s just because where it’s located there’s too

Many users that may have permission to this file to fix this just go in here properties security then you want to go to Advanced disable inheritance remove these click add select principal my name is that onus user just click okay okay full control okay and then you’ll see it’s your basic user

That you probably have on your server go back over here paste the same thing and you’ll see a Amazon Linux pop up right there so this is the base L start you want to come over here um pretty much use whatever you want I’m just going to use paper for

This just going to copy this link address do WG it’s pretty much requests basically downloads the file kind of how you do on your normal computer there it is there’s my my jar but in order to run it we’re going to have to do PSE sudo which is super user yum and then

Install Java and then y to install Java let that finish up while it’s doing that I’ll come over here go to software paper documentation just get the actual server startup command it’s right here bada bing bada boom it’s all complete all right and then we’re going to paste this in

Here we’re going to want to back step here I’m just going to tab fill the name to make it easier then this is the storage for the actual I’ll just pop it up to three it’s not going to make a huge difference and then just click

Enter it’ll do all that it’ll do the normal setup where it says the EA is set to false also I’ll wait for that to happen yep so there it is we list everything let’s see there’s the Yola just going to Nano into it this is a

Like I said before very lucrative way to do it there’s a better way I can also show you to connect to this so set it to true to write out if you’re just doing on the terminal click control o click enter then click control X to exit then just run the same command

The JV command and it’ll do its magic now we can pretty much just go in and connect to the server to find the IP where it’s running you’re just want to go back to here go to back to ec2 dashboard go to instances you’ll see

This is running this is what we set up T2 medium uh you can just click in here public ip4 this is how you’ll actually connect to the server I’ll load on into Minecraft let’s go back to terminal and look it’s done just going to opt [Applause] myself and perfect timing we’re just going to load right in go here multiplayer add server so you could leave it like this but as you can see oh well there it

Is you can either do that or place in the colon Port 25565 gar doesn’t really matter since this is a pretty basic virtual Cloud Server that we’re running it’s going to take a little bit to actually load you in just to get those initial chunks loaded but as you can see

I’m joining right here and just give it a moment let’s give it a moment to load like I said very basic server setup let’s do maybe lower this down a little bit apply done and boom you’re done there’s a very basic Minecraft server that you can play with your

Friends animated for I think what was it two virtual CPUs and what was it was it like four gigs of RAM it’s honestly pretty decent it’ll it’ll get the job done for relatively small amount of people once you try to go up to like a larger amount

Of people what I’d recommend is you can also see ec2 instances running go here actions instance settings so if you shut down the instance by going here stop instance you’ll actually be able to go into change instance type and actually upgrade this so you can get more RAM or more virtual CPUs regardless

Of what you want if you’re going to be running a large moded server it’s really up to you but it’s a very easy way and cost- effective way to do it if it’s just going to be a very minimal amount of people uh the only downside is it’s not

Like a actual hosted service so say you leave it on and then you know something happens the server crashes cuz someone gets on and does something naughty tries to duplicate sand using end portal or something who knows um it won’t automatically restart that’s the only downside to

It but thank you very much for watching if you have any questions feel free to comment or reach out and let me know