Magento and AWS
Most configurations in magento on AWS are identical and replicable. Unless you run into specific issues.
Installing
There are several materials to installing the open source versions of magento 2, here are two good ones:
SSH-ing into EC2
To SSH into EC2 here are some screenshots that'll help.
Open up the AWS console and expand the menu at the top left and look for EC2
Select the instance
Click the instance ID
Click on connect
Click on connect again to be directed to the SSH console
Your view should look like this
Getting Access
Run the following to get access to the magento instance:
cd /var/www/html
su precise
You will be requested to input a password.
You're on your way, you can now run composer and other commands from here.
phpmyadmin
Navigate to the admin site
Use your phpmyadmin credentials to get access