Steps for setting up a free ec2 micro account:

• Sign up for a free ec2 account
  • You will need to create a new AWS account if you already have one
• Log into theAWS Management Console
• Create a micro Linux account - choose an EBS backedAMI(Official Ubuntu AMI's are uploaded by user 099720109477)
• Make sure security group has SSH access
• Download pem file (can store in same directory or ~/.ssh/identity - ~/.ssh/id_dsa for newer ssh versions)
• chmod 400 [KEY].pem
• From folder of pem file connect with: ssh -i [KEY].pem ec2-user@[ID].compute-1.amazonaws.com (user name may be root or ubuntu, depending on instance)
• Send files with: scp -i [KEY].pem file [USER]@[ID].compute-1.amazonaws.com:
• Mount filesystem: sshfs [USER]@[ID].compute-1.amazonaws.com: ~/mnt -o IdentityFile=[KEY].pem
• Unmount: fusermount -u ~/mnt