Installing Node.JS on an Amazon EC2 linux box

Open putty and connect to your EC2 machine.
Pro tip: keep putty in a dropbox folder so you can easily get to your ec2 machine where ever you may choose to work.

Get the source code from GitHub:
$ git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git

Move to the node folder after it downloads:
$ cd node
$ ./configure
$ ./make

Go get coffee....

$./sudo make install

It's installed at this point.