sFTP using FileZilla into an Amazon EC2 instance

January 6, 2012 | 7 comments

Here is how to SFTP into your AWS EC2 instance using FileZilla (this was done on a Mac). Open Site Manager Add site Host: Ec2 elastic IP Port: 22 (will sort by default when you select next option) Protocol: SFTP Logon Type: Normal User: ec2-user Open Preferences SFTP Add Key File select your secure key [.pem] […]

Install WordPress on an Amazon AWS EC2 Linux instance with persistence to Amazon EBS

January 3, 2012 | 39 comments

I figured that it was finally time for me to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty with WordPress running on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Linux Micro instance. I know you can use a preinstalled image but I wanted to understand what was going on under the hood so decided to start […]