Ingredients for the Script

Get the dependencies

Because this is a clean install of Hardy you'll want to install the dependencies:

g++, gcc and make - Tools for building Plone

a few libraries - zlib, libjpeg and libxml2  - So that the python imaging library (PIL) and python-libxml2 build properly)

a few others - libncurses, pcre4 and openssl dev libraries if you plan to compile varnish

virtualenv - so that you don't mess with the system python

The following commands will do the trick:

aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude -y install build-essential python2.4-dev libz-dev libjpeg-dev 
         libxml2-dev libpcre3-dev libcurl3-openssl-dev libncurses-dev
wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
python2.4 ez_setup.py
easy_install virtualenv

Now we can move on to do

Plone Development on EC2

or

Hosting Plone on EC2