Simple instructions to install an SFTP server on Amazon Linux backed with S3 Storage.

1. Launch Amazon Linux 2 instance (micro is sufficient)

2. Install and configure s3fs:

2.1 Install dependencies

sudo yum install automake fuse fuse-devel gcc-c++ git libcurl-devel libxml2-devel make openssl-devel

2.2 Compile and install s3fs:

git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.git
cd s3fs-fuse
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

3. Create and Mount S3 Bucket:

3.1 Create S3 Bucket:

Through AWS GUI

To fix:

sudo rm -rf /opt/eff.org/

Then run e.g. renew:

sudo /opt/letsencrypt/certbot-auto renew --debug

1. Download latest version:

curl -O https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto

2. Mod script:

chmod +x certbot-auto 

3. Move location:

mv certbot-auto /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto

4. Generate SSL

/usr/local/bin/certbot-auto certonly --standalone -d example.com

5. New certificates will be generated and saved here:

/etc/letsencrypt/live/

1. Power off Virtual Machine to be cloned

2. Create a new directory within the datastore:

mkdir /vmfs/volumes/datastore/clone_name

3. Clone a vmdk to the new directory using vmkfstools:

vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore/sourcevm/name.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/datastore/clone_name/clone.vmdk

4. Create New Virtual Machine:

• New VM
• Custom
• Name e.g. CLONE-NAME
• Datastore
• Virtual Machine 8
• Guest OS e.g. Windows Server 2012 r2
• CPUs
• Memory
• Network
• SCSI Controller (LSI Logic SAS)
• Use an existing virtual disk (Browse and select clone .vmdk file from above)
• Virtual Device Node (SCSI 0:0)
• Finish

5. Power on Virtual Machine

6. Update hostname and IP address

curl ipinfo.io/ip