Setting up Elasticsearch(Single node) instance in AWS is pretty simple.
Download and install Jdk1.7
apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
Download elasticsearch zip file
wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.1.zip
Install unzip
apt-get install unzip
Uncompress the elasticsearch-1.7.1.zip file
unzip elasticsearch-1.7.1.zip
Goto the bin folder and start the instance
cd ~/elasticsearch-1.7.1/bin
./elasticsearch &
You can test the setup by using curl or open the http://localhost:9200/ in a browser
curl http://localhost:9200/
{
"status" : 200,
"name" : "Morgan Le Fay",
"version" : {
"number" : "1.3.1",
"build_hash" : "2de6dc5268c32fb49b205233c138d93aaf772015",
"build_timestamp" : "2014-07-28T14:45:15Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "4.9"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
By default elasticsearch will be pointing to port 9200. This port number 9200 need to added in the Security group of your AWS instance as a inbound custom TCP Rule.
