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Create Virtual Machine

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

  1. Sign in to Azure
    • Open your browser and go to https://portal.azure.com/.
    • Enter your Azure email and password or Log in with your Microsoft Account.
  2. Open Virtual Machines
    • At the top, click the search box and type Virtual machines.
    • Click Virtual machines under “Services.”
  3. Launch a new instance
    • Click the Create button and pick Virtual Machine.
  4. Pick your Resource Group (or create New One)
  5. Pick Region (or leave default)
  6. Name your instance
    • In the Virtual machine name box, type finmars-platform-vm.
  7. Choose Image (Ubuntu 24.04)
    • Scroll or search for Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS.
    • Pick 64-bit (x86) (should be default)
    • Click Select.
  8. Select instance Size (2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM)
    • Find and click B2ms (it has 2 vCPU and 8 GiB).
  9. Create or select key pair
    • Choose Username - azureuser.
    • SSH public key source - Generate new key pair
    • Key pair name - finmars-platform-vm-key - Do not Lose this file, if you lose it, you will not able to connect to your VM again
  10. ConfigureSelect instanceInbound detailsPorts
    • Under Subnet, pick one (any is fine).
    • Subnet - Default is ok (or do accordingly to your network configuration)
    • 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 StorageDisks.
  11. Add storage (256 GiB)
    • Change the size from 8 to 256 in the root volume row. (OS disk size)
    • Keep the volume type as gp3Premium SSD
    •  orClick gp2Next: Networking.
  12. Networking
    • Public IP: New Public IP finmars-platform-vm-ip
  13. Review and launchCreate
    • Check all your settings.
    • Click LaunchReview Instance+ Create.
  14. Wait for your VM
    • Click View Instances.
    • Wait until its status is running and checks pass.
  15. Connect to your VM
    • Select the instance named finmars-platform-vm.
    • Click Connect.
    • Follow the instructions, for example:
      # Move your Download key file to secure folder (~/Downloads not recommended)

# if this first connect 
chmod 400 "finmars-platform-vm.pem"
ssh -i ./finmars-platform-vm.pem ubuntu@<Public-IP>


# if this first connect
# Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
# yes

Your EC2Virtual Machine 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.comyour andDNS log in.
  2. Open Route 53Provider
    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 EC2VM public IP (for example, 203.0.113.25). You can find it in EC2VM 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 EC2VM 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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