BitNami :: Amazon Machine Images

(if you already have one, skip to the next step)

Go to http://aws.amazon.com.
Click Create an AWS Account.
Fill in the form with your email address and new password. Do not forget to select "I am a new user" option.
Type your email address once again and click Create account.
Fill in your Contact information and click Continue.
Your new AWS account was created.
Go to your AWS account page.
Please visit Payment Method section and add your credit card to be able to use Amazon Web Services.
Security Credentials section shows your AWS Account ID, Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Write it down somewhere, we will need it later.

Go to Amazon Management Console: aws.amazon.com/console
Sign in to the AWS Console.
Go to Security Groups section and update your default group. Make sure you have port 80 (HTTP) open but also you can add other ports like 22 (SSH) or 443 (HTTPS) to be able to ssh to your EC2 instance. You can add it as shown below - click Save at the end.
Go to AMIs section and find all BitNami images - fill in a filter field with "bitnami" string. Choose one of the images and click the right mouse button to show the list, choose Launch instance.
Fill in the form as shown below and click Launch at the end.
Go to Instances section.
The new instance will appear in the Instances section. It is in pending state. You need to wait a while.
At some point our instance will switch to running state. A public DNS name will then be available.
Copy Public DNS and paste it in the new window. You should be able to see the BitNami Application start page. Click Access Bitnami [application name] link.
You can find default login and password for the application on http://bitnami.org/stack/<<stack_name>> page. In Joomla's case it is user / bitnami taken from http://bitnami.org/stack/joomla
Click Login and you will be presented with the BitNami application.