How to keep developing a web application on EC2 pushed from VS Code to Dockerhub and then Dockerhub to EC2

Hi

• If still you are using Ec2, You can also levere AWS ECS (Without any charges)
• use your Ec2 machine to attach to ECS console - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-anywhere-registration.html
• Use AWS services to keep minimum desired services to run inside the ECS - This help you stay UP your application, Even task is down it will create automatically

CI CD Approch for your requirement:

• Create CI CD pipeline,
• Source is Bitbucket/Github
• Build Codebuild to build the image and push to ECR or DockerHub
• Codedeploy to update the ECS service

Here are the references can help you,

https://docker.awsworkshop.io/41_codepipeline/20_codebuild_codepipeline.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/it_it/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-build-ci-cd-pipelines-and-amazon-ecs-clusters-for-microservices-using-aws-cdk.html