
The root user could create your IAM user account, which gives you certain access rights. In that case, consult your cloud manager or supervisor or whoever manages your organization’s AWS account regarding the following:

If you are working for an organization that uses AWS EC2, the chances are that your data team or IT department may already have an EC2 instance running. Some resources that have helped me understand AWS and EC2 are the following:

A note is that I am a MAC user, which means I’ll be using the Terminal app initially for the EC2 set up. This post will be updated as my understanding of AWS, shiny, and application deployment improves over time. In short, I want to document the steps that I took and the resources that have helped me better understand the deployment process in this post for future reference. The available resource that I had was our AWS EC2 instance, and so I decided to host our flexdashboard through shiny-server and AWS EC2. For shiny applications or interactive documents, there are a few options for deployment and hosting, including shinyapp.io, RStudio Connect, and Shiny Server. Recently, I needed to deploy a flexdashboard that I had built.

