--- title: "Deploying a Discord Bot to AWS! DevOps Office Hours Ep. 01 w/ @programmercouple" url: https://daily.dev/posts/deploying-a-discord-bot-to-aws-devops-office-hours-ep-01-w-programmercouple-mzhxuk61f source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGRRndZCKpE type: video:youtube source: "DevOps Directive" published: 2026-05-31T07:40:35.623Z updated: 2026-05-31T07:50:07.068Z reading_time: 104 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Deploying a Discord Bot to AWS! DevOps Office Hours Ep. 01 w/ @programmercouple **[DevOps Directive](https://daily.dev/sources/devops-directive)** · 104 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A live DevOps Office Hours session where a Discord bot (a simple Node.js joke-fetching app) is migrated from Replit to AWS EC2. The session covers provisioning an Ubuntu t2.micro EC2 instance, connecting via SSH, installing Node.js/npm/git, cloning the repo, setting environment variables, running the app with nohup and then pm2 as a process manager, and beginning to set up a GitHub Actions workflow for automated deployment. Concepts like AMIs, VPCs, availability zones, CDNs, spot instances, Terraform, Elastic Beanstalk, and Kubernetes are briefly discussed along the way. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/deploying-a-discord-bot-to-aws-devops-office-hours-ep-01-w-programmercouple-mzhxuk61f)