How to Set Up a Ubuntu/Nginx Free Tier on AWS EC2

This tutorial teaches how to take advantage of the free tier products Amazon Web Services has when you sign up for an AWS account. This basic tutorial walks you through from launching an EC2 instance and setting up the nginx webserver.

Topics covered:
Choosing a free tier Amazon Machine Image to load on that instance. (Ubuntu Server).
Setting Instance type details and security group.
Downloading the keypair and setting permission on your machine.
Connecting via SSH to your instance.
Updating your Ubuntu OS.
Installing the nginx webserver.