I'm curious to see if anyone has any experience deploying drupal (or any of the other CMS solutions) using Amazon's EC2 service. The value proposition seems like a no-brainer but I just wanted to see if anyone had any experience with this and what some of the pitfalls might be?
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By an anonymous user on Apr. 09, 2008
The issue here is that you cannot save any data to your ec2 installation. You can save your data to s3, but you have make sure you run periodic backups. You can do this for a test, but this is really not for production.
By an anonymous user on Apr. 09, 2008
@anon - a lot of folks are using s3 for storage in production environments. 37signals uses it to store over 1 TB of data. If 37signals can trust their users' data with s3, I'm sure you can ;)
By an anonymous user on Apr. 09, 2008
@anon2 (I need to be able to enter my name here... guess I'll create an account!) - I agree that you can use s3 for storage - that really is not the issue. The issue I was bringing up is that for your production database, the ec2 instance doesn't have persistent storage. So you will need to set up additional capability to periodically back up your data to persistent storage, perhaps on s3. In case your ec2 instance goes down, you will lose ALL your data. ec2 does store info between reboots, but there is no notion of having its own hard drive that you can persist, per se. So, you will need to either use some kind of FUSE or something, or you will need to have processes that now know of s3 and save your installation, configuration and files out there. s3 is amazing for storing things like user files, videos, etc. but to use it as your system disk may not necessarily be the best thing.
It's here - http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9917948-7.html
Amazon Web Services executives on Sunday described a forthcoming persistent storage feature, called EC2 Persistent Storage, which they say will make its hosted computing services more flexible and far more reliable.
People can sign up for an early beta test program now before Amazon opens it up for a wider release later this year.
By an anonymous user on Jul. 07, 2008
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