- Most of the steps can be found in this note: Create an iPython HTML Notebook on Amazon's AWS Free Tier from scratch.
- If you are more comfortable with video tutorial, don't miss this YouTube tutorial: iPython notebook on AWS
- Easier way: After setting your AWS, you can easily install python and notebook by running this script
If you want to use an FTP client to transfer data between local machine and AWS server, you may be instrested in this tutorial.