This is just a wee play to see how to set luigi up on aws. This was driven by own misunderstanding of how luigi works and the need to get it set up on AWS. Most, if not all, of what's covered below will seem ridiculuously obvious to people.
Launch an aws instance, droppping this code into the user_data field in advanced settings. You need to add your own environment name and reference the luigi setup script for git to pull down and run, which is basically adding the code below to the base of the script.