Many users start on Amazon for S3 storage, and certainly that was the case for me, but for this tutorial, you'll be working in the the Elastic Cloud Computing service, or EC2. You'll need an AWS account to get started. So, I'll cover the high points herein and will point you to YouTube videos and other sources to fill in any blanks. None of this is hard or complex, but several of these processes involve more steps than I can document in this tutorial. How to save your own AMI and how to Stop and restart the image for later use.

How to connect to the EC2 instance with Filezilla.How to install FFmpeg on the cloud instance.How to connect to and control the cloud computer with PuTTY.How to choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and computer to run it on and launch that instance.Specifically, in the tutorial I'll cover: If you need to rent a cloud computer for any application, much of what's covered will apply. Though this tutorial will involve an Ubuntu computer upon which I'll load FFmpeg, most of the key lessons are generic. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to launch a cloud computer on AWS EC2.

Install ffmpeg ec2