For Ubuntu, use apt-get. For REDHAT/CENTOS, use yum.
1. Remove ntp if it is installed.
2. Install chrony and edit chrony.conf
root@myserver:~# apt-get -y install chrony
root@myserver:~# vim /etc/chrony/chrony.conf
3. Comment out the default servers, and add amazon server
server 169.254.169.123 prefer iburst
4. Restart chrony
root@myserver:~# /etc/init.d/chrony restart