Launch Selenium Grid on Amazon EC2

Here are the steps to launch your selenium grid on ec2 instance.

1. To launch the selenium grid on ec2, you must have an aws console account.
2. Create a t2.micro instance through ec2 service in the console.
3. Click on Security groups link in the ec2 management console.
4. Click on the default/security group currently assigned to your instance.
5. Add the following protocol rules to the inbound and outbound traffic.
   Type: All TCP
   Protocol: TCP
   Port Range: 4444 / 0 - 65535 (default value)
   Source: 0.0.0.0/0
6. Using the keypair generated while creating the instance, connect to the box.
7. Create a folder <selenium>.
8. run the following command to download the selenium server jar file.
   wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.53/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar
9. Launch the grid using the following command
     java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar.1 -role hub
10. Now, open your browser on your local machine and launch the grid url in the browser
      http://xxxxxxxxx:4444/grid/console

Next post will describe the steps to register the nodes to the grid....