Mount your AWS elastic volume to your local machine

mnt_aws_elastic_volume_to_local.sh

# Install SSHFS:
sudo apt-get install sshfs

# Make a local directory to mount the volume to:
sudo mkdir /mnt/aws

# Mount the volume 
# Note:  Make sure you use abosulute paths for all of the directories.
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,IdentityFile=/home/yourname/.ssh/key.pem ubuntu@ec2-XX-XXX-XX-XX.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:/home/ubuntu /mnt/aws

# Reference: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
# Thanks: https://github.com/fniroui