The text provides a comprehensive guide on deploying a Node.js application onto an Amazon EC2 Linux instance and automating the deployment process using CircleCI. It begins by highlighting the benefits of AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk and EC2, catering to different team preferences, and then delves into the step-by-step process of setting up an EC2 server, configuring security settings, and installing necessary software packages like Node.js, npm, and pm2 for application management. The tutorial emphasizes the creation of a bash script for handling deployment on the EC2 instance and outlines the integration of GitHub and CircleCI to automate the deployment pipeline. It also offers security advice, suggesting the use of a reverse proxy server and a non-sudo user for SSH connections in a production setting, and provides links to similar posts for further learning.