It took a good 4 hours to find some simple instructions on setting up a VPN on EC2. Once I found them it only took 30 min to actually setup. Who would have thought the best howto would be in a printed book (albeit available online!). Now I’ve got OpenVPN setup on an EC2 instance and Tunnelblick as the client on OS X - Here we come Arrested Devlopement!
I’ve made some rough and ready instructions for installing and configuring OpenVPN on an EC2 instance.