In developing this page, I have needed a number of items that I needed to do that were not initially obvious.  Most of these pages do not require their own blog post, but I also do not want to loose the information.

How do you log into AWS with putty?

Amazon has a great page here

How do you FTP files to you ec2 site?

I used the software called WinSCP.  It autodetected the configuration from putty.   It can be found here