I really don\'t know much about Apache, I followed some tutorials and installed the LAMP stack. I can successfully ftp to /home/ec2-user and upload files there but I want to
Here is a helpful answer, and at the end is a link to a video for Cyberduck. The text of the Filezilla explanation was enough for me to figure it out for Cyberduck.
Connect to Amazon EC2 file directory using Filezilla and SFTP