Good description if you want to do this by hand...but..

Article:		Creating Applications with Amazon EC2 and S3
Subject:		Good description if you want to do this by hand...but..
Date:		2008-10-25 16:01:25
From:		pjkerpan4

it can be much simpler just to use Elastic Servers. http://www.elasticserver.com Just a couple of clicks and you have a custom assembled virtual server for EC2 or other popular cloud and virtualization formats.