History: EC2

1. Get amazon web services account
2. Activate EC2
3. install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247
4. install http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609
5. Restart Firefox
6. Configure account in ElasticFox
   1. Click on Credentials
   2. Enter Access Key ID and Secret Access Key from aws.amazon.com > Your Account > Access Identifiers > AWS Access Key Identifiers
   3. You should see some AMIs appearing
7. Go to tab "Key pairs"
   1. Click on green button to "Create a new pair"
   2. This will generate a *.pem file, that you should save on your hard drive. This is used to login later, without a password.
8. Go to AMIs and instances,
   1. pick an AMI (Amzaon doesn't supply these but we can use a 3rd party AMI such as ami-7806e211, for example)
   2. Right-click and launch
   3. Make sure KeyPair is the one you created before
   4. All other options can stay the dfaults
9. You should see something new in "Your instances"
10. Security Groups
    • "Your Groups" should be "default"
    • Below, in "Group permissions" click green button to add permissions
    • Don't change anyhing but Port Range 22 to 22
    • And Port Range 80 to 80
    • And Port Range 5901 to 5901
    • That was to add SSH, HTTP and VNC access
11. Go back to AMIs and instances
    • Refresh your instance
    • Copy PUBLIC address to clipboard (If it's blank, be patient while it boots up)
12. Use this IP address to connect to your instance, via SSH
    1. Use private key generate above (*.pem)

Todo

Setup backups / persistence on S3