[gnulinux]

Unfortunately, I don't expect to have emacs server running in an EC2 instance intended to run a company service since it needs to be a copy of prod instance (for testing/development). In such instances nano is helpful.

[nanomonkey]

Ah, yes that is where tramp emacs package comes in handy, as it allows one to edit remote files within your local instance of emacs.

Note there is also helm-aws [https://github.com/istib/helm-aws] for managing AWS EC2 server instances directly from Emacs.