RAILO - Configuring Amazon EC2 firewall to allow CFFTP - coldfusion

I have RAILO (Railo 3.1.2.001 final) installed on an AMAZON EC2 instance and everything seems to be working fine for the tests I have done. I can connect to mySQL and simple commands work. The applications I am planning to run on it make extensive use of CFFTP to pull files in from clients and process them. The OPEN command works fine and I get a succeeded in Active and Passive mode, but when I try to do anything (check for a file, put a file, download) I get : 500 Illegal PORT command.
My thought here is the AMAZON firewall is blocking some ports and something needs to be setup for this to function.
Anyone have any experience with this and can point me in the correct direction?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff

do you connect from outside amazon to the instance ? if you do check the security group and allow the ip/port for your application.

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