Sometime you can get error in connecting to FTP server.I was having vsftp server running in linux system and was getting error if trying to connect from filezilla client.

If you want to install FTP server in EC2 Then you can just use

yum and apt-get commands are very powerful command in linux for administration purposes.

For creating ftp accounts you can use any of ftp server.For this example, you can use using Vsftpd, as it is the default FTP client distributed with RedHat, however these instructions should apply to most FTP server applications.

Create a FTP user group.

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used as one of the most common means of copying files between servers over the Internet. Most web based download sites use the built in FTP capabilities of web browsers and therefore most server oriented operating systems usually include an FTP server application as part of the software suite. Linux is no exception.

This chapter will show you how to convert your Linux box into an FTP server using the default Very Secure FTP Daemon (VSFTPD) package included in Fedora. 

• FTP relies on a pair of TCP ports to get the job done.