Couchbase Server can be easily downloaded and installed on your local machine. However a common way to run it is on Amazon. This blog will explain how you can run Couchbase on Amazon.

Couchbase Server can be easily launched on Amazon Web Services using Couchbase on AWS Marketplace. Click on Continue and review the settings in 1-Click Launch as shown below:

This is using Couchbase Server 4.0 Community Edition and an m3.large instance.

A new security group with all the relevant ports exposed will be automatically created. This group’s name is Couchbase Server Community Edition-4-0-0-AutogenByAWSMP-. This group is created once and can be repurposed if you launch another instance.

You may have to create a new key pair as explained here.

Click on “Accept Software Terms and Launch with 1-click”. The following confirmation window will be shown:

Wait for a few minutes for the image to be provisioned. AWS EC2 Console should show the status as  “2/2 checks passed” as shown:

Get the public DNS address and access Couchbase at http://<public-dns-address>:8091. In our case, this will be http://ec2-54-153-6-241.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8091/index.html. Note, that this instance is now shutdown and so is not available 😉

Couchbase on Amazon Usage Instructions provide more details about how to use Couchbase on Amazon.

<public-ip-address>:8091 shows a login screen. A default username is Administrator and the password is your instance id:

And clicking on Sign In shows the Couchbase Web Console:

Further references …

• Couchbase Server Developer Portal
• Couchbase Downloads
• Couchbase Server Developer Portal
• Questions on StackOverflow, Forums or Slack Channel
• Follow us @couchbasedev
• Couchbase 4.5 Beta

Enjoy!

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Source: https://blog.couchbase.com/2016/may/couchbase-amazon-marketplace