LAMP stack on Amazon EC2

This post lists down the high level steps and useful links to get started with EC2

Tools:

• Elasticfox- Firefox Add-On, to manage your instance via Firefox.
• S3Fox- Firefox Add-On, to manage your S3 buckets, ACL and files via Firefox. Only issue is that I cannot set the expire time using S3Fox … you can go for BucketExplorer, costs $30. I use S3Fox to upload / download files from my desktop
• s3sync- Ruby based command line utility to manage your buckets, files etc. I have it installed on my instance, to sync up my datafiles etc to S3 on a daily / weekly basis
  To Sync the entire folder – use s3sync
  ./s3sync.rb -r /directory/to/sync bucket-name:directory/path
  To Upload one file – use s3cmd
  ./s3cmd.rb put bucket-name:path/to/file/file-name /path/to/source/
• Putty – to ssh or scp to the instance, if on windows. Refer to the amazon for details on setup

Setup:

• Create the credentials for Amazon for EC2, S3, EBS, Cloudfront
• Create the security group in EC2
• Launch the instance with the preferred AMI
• Setup EBS of desired size
• Configure MySQL, Apache to run from EBS
• setup s3sync

Excellent post on this topic: “Tutorial: Running a php/mySQL server on EC2 with EBS”