Source

https://medium.com/@alexjsanchez/python-3-notebooks-on-aws-ec2-in-15-mostly-easy-steps-2ec5e662c6c6

Requirement

  • A AWS EC2’s instance

Setup EC2

Create EC2 instance

Choose AMI

Choose the instance’s type

Setup network
You’ll need to place this instance in to public subnet and assign to it a public IP.

Create key or use existed key for ssh

Setup ssh key (optional)

At local environment

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$ vi ~/.ssh/config

Add this to end of file

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Host jupyter
    Hostname {ec2's public IP above}
    IdentityFile {above downloaded key}
    Port 22
    User ec2-user

Test access

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$ ssh jupyter
Last login: Sat Feb  2 09:57:59 2019 from xxxx.xxxx.xxxx

    __|  __|_  )
    _|  (     /   Amazon Linux 2 AMI
    ___|\___|___|

https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/
3 package(s) needed for security, out of 3 available
Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates.
-bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory
[ec2-user@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx ~]$

Setup jupyter

  • Install anaconda

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    $ mkdir Downloads
$ cd Downloads/
$ wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-4.4.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
$ bash Anaconda3-4.4.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

  • Generate ssl certificate

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    $ mkdir ~/certs
$ cd ~/certs
$ sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem

  • Generate password used when login

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    ipython
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    from IPython.lib import passwd
passwd()

You’ll see a sha1 hashed string in output. Save it for use at config step.

Config jupyter

Generate config file

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$ jupyter notebook --generate-config

Open setting file and add following text to the end

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vim .jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py
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c = get_config()

# Kernel config
c.IPKernelApp.pylab = 'inline'  # if you want plotting support always in your notebook

# Notebook config
c.NotebookApp.certfile = u'/home/ec2-user/certs/mycert.pem' #location of your certificate file
c.NotebookApp.ip = '*'
c.NotebookApp.open_browser = False  #so that the ipython notebook does not opens up a browser by default
c.NotebookApp.password = u'{hashstring_above}'  #edit this with the SHA hash that you generated after typing in Step 9
# This is the port we opened in Step 3.
c.NotebookApp.port = 8888

Set security group

Add port 8888 to access jupyter server

If you launched jupyter server at low port as 80, you need to add sudo when launch jupyter server. Source

Launch jupyter server

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mkdir ~/Notebooks
cd ~/Notebooks
jupyter notebook

Bonus

Auto start jupyter when instance is restarted

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$ mkdir ~/scripts
$ vi ~/scripts/jupyter-start.sh

Add following text

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#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bashrc
cd /home/ec2-user/Notebooks
jupyter notebook

Setup cronjob

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@reboot /home/ec2-user/scripts/start_jupyter.sh > /dev/null

Done

Enter your login password

And