Handy Tips #22: Deploying Zabbix in the AWS cloud platform

Anonymous Anonymous

Zabbix Certified Expert & Trainer

January 31, 2022

Deploy a production-ready Zabbix instance in the AWS cloud platform with just a few clicks. With a major paradigm shift to cloud IT infrastructures, many organizations opt-in to migrate their on-prem systems to the Cloud. Zabbix provides official cloud images for the most popular cloud vendors including the AWS cloud platform. Deploy the complete Zabbix […]

Deploy a production-ready Zabbix instance in the AWS cloud platform with just a few clicks.

With a major paradigm shift to cloud IT infrastructures, many organizations opt-in to migrate their on-prem systems to the Cloud. Zabbix provides official cloud images for the most popular cloud vendors including the AWS cloud platform.

Deploy the complete Zabbix infrastructure in AWS:

Deploying a fully functional environment takes less than 5 minutes
Select between multiple geographical regions

Select the EC2 Instance type best fit for your Zabbix workloads
Perfect for both Q/A and Production environments

Check out the video to learn how to deploy Zabbix in AWS.

How to deploy a Zabbix instance in AWS:

Open the Zabbix Cloud Images page and select the AWS Zabbix server image
Click Continue to Subscribe and subscribe to use the image
Read the terms and conditions and click Continue to Configuration
Select the Region in which you wish to deploy a Zabbix instance
Select the launch options and the EC2 instance Type
Select a VPC, a subnet, a Security group, and a key pair
Make sure that the selected security group allows traffic through ports 10051, 22 and 443
Press Launch to launch the instance
Check the instance address and connect to the instance
Copy the initial frontend username and password
Sign-in into the frontend with your credentials

Tips and best practices:

The initial frontend password can be obtained by connecting to the instance terminal
By default, the Zabbix frontend uses the UTC timezone
The frontend timezone can be changed by editing the php_value[date.timezone] variable in /etc/php-fpm.d/zabbix.conf and restarting the php-fpm process
The MySQL root password is stored in /root/.my.cnf configuration file