This tutorial is for all the marketers out there that have a great idea, but need to work with a developer to set up their website or web server.

Amazon EC2 is the most popular cloud hosting service provider. The offer really low hourly rates and many services to make your website reliable and salable.

You never want to give a third party contractor direct access (username/password) to your EC2 admin control panel. Amazon provides security tokens that you can give...