Merge pull request #330 from blockstack/images

added instructions for deploying a node on AWS

images/aws/README.md

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+# Blockstack Core on AWS
+
+We're releasing a listing on the AWS Marketplace, where you can easily deploy
+the latest version of Blockstack core (with fastsync support).
+
+- **Step 1:** Login to your AWS account or create one if you don't already have one.
+
+- **Step 2:** Deploy a new VM from the Blockstack image, with at least 20 GB of space on the root volume.
+
+- **Step 3:** Login to your newly deployed node.
+
+- **Step 4:** Use fastsync to get the latest state:
+
+```
+$ blockstack-server --debug fast_sync http://fastsync.blockstack.org/snapshots/latest.bsk 023fa2e30724998010764529bda23213061c8e758d7095e1883bed8006844daaec
+```
+
+- **Step 5:** Start the Blockstack Core node:
+
+```
+$ blockstack-server --debug start
+$ tail -f ~/.blockstack-server/blockstack-server.log
+```
+
+If you run into any issues, you can talk to us in the #support channel at http://chat.blockstack.org