Installing ElasticSearch on Amazon EC2

I wanted to set up ElasticSearch on Amazon EC2 and these are the steps that i followed to do that

• Connect to your Amazon EC2 instance using SSH and execute following command to download ElasticSearch v 90.9 on my instance

  
  wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.9.tar.gz
  

  It took less than a minute to download the elasticsearch binary on the instance
• Next i executed following command to unzip the elasticsearch-0.90.9.tar.gz

  
  tar -xf elasticsearch-0.90.9.tar.gz
  

• After extracting the elasticsearch binaries start it by executing following command

  
  elasticsearch-0.90.9/bin/elasticsearch –f
  

• After starting the ElasticSearch instance i could use the ES REST API from the SSH console on the same instance

  
  curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_search
  

• But since i want to access it from my local machine/outside the instance i had to open the 9200 port on that instances firewall that i could do by changing the security group and adding 9200 and 9300 ports to it
  
• Then you can use the public DNS for your EC2 instance and query the REST instance from your local machine like this

  
  curl -XGET http://<yourinstancename>.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:9200/_search