- Login to aws.amazon.com and create an EC2 instance with a standard Ubuntu (14.04) installation.
- Create a Security Group that allows type SSH on port 22 and HTTP on port 80.
- Download the .pem file (during setup) which we'll use to authenticate into your server via terminal.
- Modify permissions on the
.pem
file downloaded from AWS
$ chmod 0600 ~/Downloads/{your_key}.pem