How to securely expose your local app to the internet using EC2?

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ngrok

First, I used ngrok, which creates a tunnel between my local machine and servers that are already exposed to the internet - So your requests to the ngrok server get forwarded to your local app. That's convenient and useful. However, the URL of that server changes every time you connect, which means I need to update my app config every time I connect.

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AWS Certificate Manager

Now we need to have the site secure with SSL/TLS. So we can either add a load balancer and associate it with a certificate from AWS ACM or directly create a certificate on the instance. Let's do the latter using OpenSSL.

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