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Create Virtual Machine

Sure! Let’s make your EC2 and name it finmars-platform-vm. Follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to AWS
  2. Open EC2
    • At the top, click the search box and type EC2.
    • Click EC2 under “Services.”
  3. Launch a new instance
    • Click the blue Launch instances button.
  4. Name your instance
    • In the Name tag box, type finmars-platform-vm.
  5. Choose AMI (Ubuntu 24.04)
    • Scroll or search for Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS.
    • Pick 64-bit (x86) (should be default)
    • Click Select.
  6. Select instance type (4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM)
    • Find and click t3.xlarge (it has 4 vCPU and 16 GiB).
  7. Create or select key pair
    • Choose Create a new key pair.
    • Name it (e.g. finmars-platform-vm-key).
    • Click DownloadCreate Key Pair and save the .pem file safely. - Do not Lose this file, if you lose it, you will not able to connect to your VM again
    • Click Launch Instances.
  8. Configure instance details
    • Under Subnet, pick one (any is fine).
    • Turn Auto-assign Public IP to Enable. (If already enabled - OK)
    • Turn on checkbox Allow SSH traffic from
    • Turn on checkbox Allow HTTPS traffic from the internet
    • Turn on checkbox Allow HTTP traffic from the internet
    • Leave the rest as default.
    • Click Next: Add Storage.
  9. Add storage (256 GiB)
    • Change the size from 8 to 256 in the root volume row.
    • Keep the volume type as gp3 or gp2.
  10. Review and launch
    • Check all your settings.
    • Click Launch.
  11. Wait for your VM
    • Click View Instances.
    • Wait until its status is running and checks pass.
  12. Connect to your VM
    • Select the instance named finmars-platform-vm.
    • Click Connect.
    • Follow the instructions, for example:
      chmod 400 "finmars-platform-vm.pem"
ssh -i ./finmars-platform-vm.pem ubuntu@<Public-IP>

Your EC2 named finmars-platform-vm is ready! 🎉


Now you need to assign your Public IP of your freshly created VM to subdomain of your domain.

  1. Sign in to AWS
    Go to console.aws.amazon.com and log in.
  2. Open Route 53
    In the top search bar, type Route 53, then click the service.
  3. Go to Hosted Zones
    In the left menu, click “Hosted zones.”
  4. Select your domain
    Find and click the zone named your_domain.tld (for example, example.com).
  5. Create the first record
    • Click “Create record.”
    • In Record name, type finmars (so full name is finmars.example.com). - It is Record for Actual Finmars Platform
    • For Record type, choose A – IPv4 address.
    • In Value, type your EC2 public IP (for example, 203.0.113.25). You can find it in EC2 details
    • Leave TTL as default (300).
    • Click “Create records.”
  6. Create the second record
    • Click “Create record” again.
    • In Record name, type finmars-auth(so full name is finmars-auth.example.com). - It is Record for Single-Sign-On (SSO) Finmars
    • For Record type, choose A – IPv4 address.
    • In Value, type the same EC2 public IP.
    • Click “Create records.”
  7. Wait a few minutes
    DNS needs a little time to spread out. After about 5 minutes, both
    • finmars.example.com
    • finmars-auth.example.com
      will go to your VM’s public IP.

That’s it! Now both sub-domains point to your finmars-platform-vm server.

You can verify it by run following command in Terminal (On Mac or Linux)

dig finmars.example.com
dig finmars-auth.example.com


Output should be like:

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> finmars.example.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39082
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;finmars-platform-vm.finmars.com. IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
finmars.example.com. 300 IN	A	203.0.113.25

;; Query time: 12 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.178.1#53(192.168.178.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 11 20:10:02 CEST 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 76



Now go to next step: Install Finmars Platform




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