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To get started let’s spin up an Ubuntu 16.4 LTS instance on AWS. After instance is up and running, we need to add port 80 to the instance’s security group inbound rules. There should be at least two ports open: 22, and 80. Now we can ssh into the instance and install Nginx, Node, and...