Setting Up The Amazon EC2 Free Tier Instance - drewswu/BadassCMS GitHub Wiki
Amazon offers a free tier instance to use which works out nicely for this project. Please see the Amazon TOS for details.
- Register an account on Amazon AWS
- Create a micro instance using the AWS EC2 console.
- Use the CentOS 6.3 minimal r2 x86_64 AMI image.
- Choose a 10 Gb EBS volume
- Set up the "default" security group and allow TCP SSH traffic from either all (0.0.0.0/0) or from your subnet (x.x.x.x/y)
- Save the .pem file that is generated into your ~/.ssh directory
- Record the public DNS name for your server
To ssh on to the instance:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/<yourpem>.pem ec2-user@<yourinstance>