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Deploying Spring Boot REST APIs to AWS

Published on 08 Jul 2026

Explanation

Package the Spring Boot application into a JAR file.

Code:

mvn clean package

Explanation

Launch an AWS EC2 instance and install Java.

Code:

sudo apt install openjdk-21-jdk

Explanation

Upload the application JAR to the EC2 instance.

Code:

scp app.jar ubuntu@EC2_IP:/home/ubuntu

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Run the Spring Boot application.

Code:

java -jar app.jar

Explanation

Allow port 8080 in the AWS Security Group to access the API.

Code:

http://EC2_PUBLIC_IP:8080/students

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