Setting up Amazon AWS EC2 ftp server with Linux and VSFTP:

Install vsftp (example for Ubuntu / Debian)

apt-get -y install vsftpd

Edit configuration file (in our example with local authentication and no guest user)

vi /etc/vsftpd.conf

write_enable=YES
anonymous_enable=NO
local_umask=022
local_enable=YES

#to add passive ftp:
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_max_port=12100
pasv_min_port=12000
port_enable=YES
pasv_address="your external instance ip or address"

and open inbound port range 20-21 and 12000-12100 in your security groups

Provided by: ForthScale systems, scalable infrastructure experts