Zero to Hero Series - Erlang on Amazon Web Services - Part 1

I've also finished Part 2: http://www.asimihsan.com/articles/zero_to_hero_erlang_on_aws_part_02.html

This series is taking me far longer than I anticipated; I haven't even started talking about Erlang or OTP yet because of having to set up all the preamble with respect to using Amazon Web Services.

I think I have about four or five parts left to this series. Any and all comments are welcome!