It ought to be easy-peasy to provision an #AWS #EC2 instance, point a domain name at it, and start serving a website. But friends, it is not. For who knows what reason, #AmazonLinux2023 makes it nearly impossible to use #LetsEncrypt, and AWS's alternative solution (#NitroEnclaves and such) is beyond overkill.

Scaling an instance up or down fails as often as it succeeds for me. The new policy of charging for #IPv4 addresses basically doubles the price for a small website. ☹️

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It ought to be easy-peasy to provision an #AWS #EC2 instance, point a domain name at it, and start serving a website. But friends, it is not. For who knows what reason, #AmazonLinux2023 makes it nearly impossible to use #LetsEncrypt, and AWS's alternative solution (#NitroEnclaves and such) is beyond overkill.

Scaling an instance up or down is fragile. It fails as often as it succeeds. The new policy of charging for #IPv4 addresses basically doubles the price to run a small website. ☹️

(3/8) 🧵