Setting up EC2:

• create X.509 cert and dl private key and cert
• download ec2 java tools
• set JAVA_HOME to where java lives (c:\PROGRA~1\Java\jdk1.6.0_03 for me)
• set EC2_HOME to where unpacked tools are
• add EC2_HOME\bin to PATH
• set EC2_CERT to the location of ec2 certificate file
• set EC2_PRIVATE_KEY to the location of ec2 private key file
• run ec2ver to see if it works
• ec2-describe-images -a : get list of all images
• ec2-add-keypair gsg-keypair >id_rsa-gsg-keypair : creates a private key for logging in
• ami-03d6336a : ubuntu 7.10 base image
• ec2-run-instances ami-03d6336a -k gsg-keypair
• ec2-describe-instances i-8d3dcbe4
• ec2-authorize default -p 22
• ec2-authorize default -p 80
• ssh -i id_rsa-gsg-keypair root@ec2-72-44-50-173.z-1.compute-1.amazonaws.com
• ec2-terminate-instances i-8d3dcbe4