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I'd really like to use AWS for future Rails deployments.. Has anyone gotten a Rails app deployed using EC2/EBS/S3?


I've run http://Dibs.net on EC2 for over a year, with images served up on S3. Several servers have uptimes since I booted them in June '07. I have nothing but good things to say about my experience with AWS.

If you can, I highly recommend going to the AWS Start Up Tour (http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/2008-aws-start.html) It's a good place to meet people and last year Jeff Bezos and John Doerr showed up to the one in Palo Alto.

Edit: Forgot to mention - I run PostgreSQL on instance storage with log shipping and backups to S3, and a couple of MySQL DBs for Cacti and geolocation lookups. EBS will help a lot in this area, which is kind of a pain right now. Can't wait to start using it.


I've tried various gems and plugins and kept having issues, eventually giving up on AWS (that was several months ago).

Can you offer any tips or suggestions for a successful rails deployment?




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