FTP deployment to Amazon EC2

If you're using Beanstalk's deployment tools to publish files to an Amazon EC2 instance, you may experience slow speed and performance. This is due to the AWS firewall blocking ports for Passive mode.

To fix this, we recommend reading this article, which explains how to install an FTP server and open up the proper ports.

http://linuxadminzone.com/install-and-configure-ftp-server-in-amazo...

Important: If you use IP restrictions in your group policy, you must also add our internal EC2 IP addresses of 10.194.18.160, 10.242.218.63, 10.242.210.64 in addition to our other IPs.