Rapticore Standard EC2 Only - in a New VPC

The following setup will install Rapticore Standard in a new VPC in your AWS account. The setup process will deploy all necessary services and security groups needed.

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Rapticore Terms of Service

Rapticore Standard is provided as per the Rapticore License Terms of Service . By using Rapticore Standard you agree to the terms as noted in the agreement.

Setup:
To simplify setup, we provide CloudFormation templates YAML format to facilitate the deployment.

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Resources created

The setup script will create the following resources in your AWS Account:

  • A new public VPC CIDR 10.0.0.0/16
  • A new public subnet CIDR 10.0.1.0/24
  • A new Internet Gateway
  • A Public route
  • Security Group with Public Inbound access on ports 80 and 443
  • IAM Instance Profile for the Rapticore Standard EC2 Instance
  • Rapticore Standard EC2 Instance

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AWS Cost

Rapticore Standard customers are responsible for all AWS costs associated with running Rapticore Standard Self-hosted version. The estimated monthly cost of running Rapticore Standard using t3.medium is US $30.46. Please note that these are estimates and the actual costs might vary.

AWS Account Configuration

AWS Console Setup

  1. Download the CloudFormation Template as a .yaml file
  2. Log into your target account AWS Management Console with appropriate permissions
  3. Go to the CloudFormation Service and click the "Create stack" button on the top right corner of the screen
  4. Select "Template is Ready" and then select "Upload a template file"
  5. Choose the YAML file you downloaded and click “Next”
  6. Enter a Friendly Name for the stack, e.g., Rapticore-standard-stack
  7. Click "Next" Review Details and select the acknowledgment checkbox once in agreement.
  8. Click “Create stack” and review the progress
  9. Once the stack is created, click the Outputs tab and copy the URL of the created EC2 instance.
  10. Please allow up to 5 minutes after the setup is complete for Rapticore Standard to complete its internal setup. This is for first-time setup only.

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Troubleshooting: Public IP Address Missing on EC2

In case the newly created Rapticore Standard instance does not automatically obtain an IP address, please follow these steps:

1 - Allocate a new Elastic Public IP from the EC2 Console.
2 - Attach the newly created Elastic Public IP to the Running Rapticore Standard Instance.

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Certificate Warning

Rapticore Standard in EC2 Only, uses a self-signed TLS certificate resulting in a certificate warning in the browser. To avoid this, you can create complete stack involving load balancer, certificate, DNS record and EC2 using this CloudFormation Template

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Rebooting after first bootup

Rebooting the instance once it is fully up will ensure that the instance is updated with the latest version of Rapticore Standard.

Follow the setup guide for IAM Role for Rapticore Standard to get you started.

AWS Integration: Rapticore Standard