=> Close and reopen your terminal to start using nvm or run the following to use it now: => Appending source string to /home/ec2-user/.bashrc => Downloading nvm as script to '/home/ec2-user/.nvm' % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Installing Node.js for ec2-user version (node) Installation logs can be found in /var/log/cloud-init-output.log # /var/log/cloud-init-output.log Once the EC2 instance is provisioned and running, login and run following command node -v

Changes permissions to make it executable.

Download the NVM (node version manager) install script.

In case of AMIs other than Amazon Linux please update the USER for example in case of an Ubuntu AMI, assign following USER=ubuntu # For Ubuntu AMI mention ubuntu etc. The script installs the latest version of node but you can also specify a particular version, for example to install version 8.9.4, assign version number like this NODE_VERSION=8.9.4 # installs latest, for specific mention version number e.g.

nvm.sh nvm install $NODE_VERSION'Ĭopy the above content into a file on your computer and provide that for user data (Configure Instance -> Advanced Details -> User data, select As file and provide this file) Su - $USER -c '#!/bin/bash cd ~ curl -o- > install.sh chmod +x install.sh. NODE_VERSION=node # installs latest, for specific mention version number e.g. USER=ec2-user # For Ubuntu AMI mention ubuntu etc. Here is the simplest way to achieve that with a shell script, you can specify it in the User data Primary reason being that the instructions don’t use a standard package manager (yum / apt-get). While AWS Documentation provides a great way to install Node.js on EC2 server once it is up, instructions provided in there are a little tricky to put together in a user data script / command. EC2 User data is probably the best way to bootstrap your instance.

Install nodejs on amazon linux