On Amazon AWS, they have their own distribution called Amazon Linux. This linux comes with a special support provided by AWS engineers and some cool features and a nice integration with the AWS environment itself.

Fist step to get Docker installed on there is update your distro. But first, a quick tip after you create your EC2 instance.

1. Confirm in the security settings of your EC2 instance, if you have the port 22 open.

2. Connect using: ssh ec2-user@THE-PUBLIC-ADDRESS-OR-IP

3. Run an update:

sudo yum update -y

1. Installing Docker:

# installing
sudo amazon-linux-extras install docker

1. tarting the service

sudo service docker start

1. Add ec2-user to docker group so you won’t need to type “sudo” all the time

sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user

1. Start docker service even after restarting the server

sudo systemctl enable docker

1. Last step is just reboot the server.

sudo restart -n