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 # CCE Search Ansible Setup
 
-## Frontend Server (cce.ebookfoundation.org)
-
 ### Pre-requisites
 1. Install `ansible` on your local machine
-2. Ensure you have obtained the SSH key for the server 
-3. Complete server setup if not already complete (see CCE-Frontend-System-Information-and-Provisioning-Guide.pdf)
+2. Ensure you have obtained the SSH key for the EC2 instances
+3. Provision EC2 instances as needed
+
+## Frontend Server (cce.ebookfoundation.org)
+
+For information on how to provision the EC2 instance, see [CCE-Frontend-System-Information-and-Provisioning-Guide.md](CCE-Frontend-System-Information-and-Provisioning-Guide.md)
 
 ### Updating and redeploying
 
 Once new changes have been added to the master branch of the [frontend repo](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/cce-search-prototype), run the `update-frontend-prod` playbook:
 ```
 $ ansible-playbook -i hosts update-frontend-prod.yml --key-file="/path/to/key/on/your/machine"
-```
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+```
+
+## Backend Server (ec2-18-217-39-134.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com)
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 [production]
-cce_frontend_prod ansible_host=cce.ebookfoundation.org ansible_user=ubuntu
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+cce_frontend_prod ansible_host=cce.ebookfoundation.org ansible_user=ubuntu
+cce_backend_prod ansible_host=ec2-18-217-39-134.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com ansible_user=ubuntu
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+- hosts: cce_backend_prod
+  tasks:
+  - include_role:
+            name: cce_backend_prod
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