Unzip bedrock-server-1.16.40.02.zip -d /home/ubuntu Replace the link above (and modify the file below). You should replace this with whatever is the current version at by right clicking on the 'Download' box and copying the link to your clipboard. This is the current version as of me writing this (). This will download the bedrock server from Microsoft. This will navigate to the home directory where you find yourself when you SSH in to the server.

This will install the unzip utility we will need to unzip the Minecraft server download. This command will update the list of available packages for your ubuntu box. Additionally, everything in here will be run as root so there is no need for sudo or elevation of privileges here.Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Note: you do not need #!/bin/bash or anything like that in the launch script box before your commands. I set everything up with OS only on Ubuntu 18.04 and created the instance with the Launch Script that will follow. One of the nice things about Amazon Lightsail is that you can budget for them due to their pricing models.įor my minecraft server I went with the smallest instance because it was free for a month and I could always take a snapshot of my instance and upgrade if I need to.

So I decided to modify the instructions and try to get the bedrock version running. So I did a little bit of digging and discovered some guides to hosting a Bedrock Minecraft server on Amazon Lightsail.ĪWS itself has posted a guide to deploying a Java based Minecraft server on Lightsail but that would not work with the assorted iOS and Android tablets running the Bedrock version. While I know that Microsoft sells access to Minecraft Realms of $8.00 a month or so, I wondered what it would take to host it on AWS. This past Summer, I was lucky enough to spend the better part of a week at a nice house on a small lake with some family (parents + 3 siblings and their family) and our kids (5 kids between 11 and 6) were obsessed with playing local co-op Minecraft with each other.

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