Minecraft EC2 Server Setup

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Instructions to setup a Minecraft server on an Amazon EC2 Micro instance

1. Go to instances, launch instance. 
2. Select classic wizard, 32-bit Amazon Linux AMI, Micro instance type.
3. Set up key pair
4. Create new TCP rule and add 22, 25565
5. Launch instance
6. Go to elastic ips, and allocate/associate a new address
7. ssh ec2-user@[ip address]
8. sudo yum update
9. mkdir minecraft
10. cd minecraft
11. wget http://www.minecraft.net/download/minecraft_server.jar
    sudo java -Xmx512M -Xms512M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
    - use larger values for larger server
    java -Xmx2G -Xms2G -jar minecraft_server.jar
12. create login script 
    #!/bin/sh
    cd /home/ec2-user/minecraft
    java -Xmx512m -Xms512m -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
13. chmod a+x minecraft.sh
14. add the following to /etc/rc.local
    sh /home/ec2-user/minecraft/minecraft.sh
15. reboot and enjoy
16. login using elastic ip address