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I am using an Amazon Linux AIM so the steps below assume this is the kind of image you have. Most of the steps below actually should work on any Linux server.
It is interesting to use an EBS filesystem so your data is persisted even after termination of your server instance. Using the instance filesystem to store data from MySQL should not be interesting for a database server, as all your data would be lost in case of termination of your instance.

To install Ruby and Rails on your Amazon EC2 server there are a few steps you need to follow, but none of them quite hard. By default ruby is already installed on your server by Amazon - check it by running $ ruby -v.

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i386-linux]


If you use Windows to connect to your servers, the most used software to connect using SSH are usually Putty or Cygwin. This tutorial will use Putty to allow you to connect to an amazon EC2 server.
When you build your servers you created a ".pem" file which is the public-key of a specific certificate. Putty does not understand this key, so it is necessary to create a "ppk" file - Putty Private Key.

Now that you have your Amazon EC2 Cloud server, you need to start setting it up. (Did u get free cloud server?)

I think starting with an apache server would be a good (and very simple) option. All you have to do is type the command:

$ sudo yum -y install httpd

It will install a brand new apache server in lightning speed.

Now let us start the server services and have them start up automatically on a reboot:

Amazon has a program to help users get started in the cloud for free. It is called AWS Free Usage Tier and it is offered as no charge for new Amazon EC2 customers.
You can run a micro instance for free for a year with a fairly good pack of services for free:

See Part I of this article

This is Part II of Setup Ubuntu Server in the Cloud series.

4. Install and configure a firewall
Having a firewall in your system is mandatory. Configuring it correctly is even more important. I use 'iptables' for that matter and here is the command to install it, and then check its configuration which, at this time is empty:

dambrosio@XXXCNN4730:~$ sudo apt-get install iptables
dambrosio@XXXCNN4730:~$ sudo iptables -L

I just bought a server in the Cloud to run my development tools (i.e. SVN, JIRA, MySQL etc.). It is a 8.04 Ubuntu server with root access. So I need this server to work the way I want it, so here are the steps I took to prepare it:

1. Change the .bashrc file
I am so used to typing 'll' in the command line as alias for 'ls -lsa' that the first thing I changed was the .bashrc file to have the standard aliases enabled.

Type:

root@XXXCNN4730:/# vi ~/.bashrc