(Skip this if you can skip it)
Go to aws.amazon.com and choose Launch Instance
Choose a Linux Distro (I am choosing Ubuntu)
* SLES 11 is missing a readline lib which appears to be used by Python >= 2.7.6 as well as Python 3. My naive attempt to download and install readline did not work, and even if it had I would have been left wondering what was going to fail next.
Create a key pair. This will save a public key on the remote EC2 instance and prompt you to save the private key (.pem) file. DO NOT LOSE THIS FILE! You can't just generate a new key pair, because you won't have any way of installing it on the EC2 instance. You'll have to create an all new instance. If you have spent quite a bit of time getting a VM just right, this would be bad, because you'd lose it.
This launches your instance!
Logging in
One nice thing is by generating the keypair you automatically get SSH magic for login, which means you never need a password.
Check python with which python and `which python` --version
On Ubuntu you don't have easy install unless you do this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9780717/bash-pip-command-not-found
$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
http://dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python/
$ sudo easy_install pip
Then install virtualenvhttp://dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python/$ sudo pip install virtualenv
Then create a virtualenv and install Django in it $ virtualenv first
$ cd first
$ bin/pip install Django
$ . bin/activate
Now you are ready to Django!
