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Amazon EC2 - The Future of (Rails-) Hosting?

April 6th, 2007

At yesterday’s meeting of the Berlin Ruby Users Group my fellow rubyist Adam Groves and I shared our thoughts on how to utilize Amazons EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) web service for hosting applications, especially with Ruby on Rails in mind. A major issue is the non persistence of local storage in the EC2 environment. We outlined several approaches on how to possibly solve this issue, minimizing potential data loss.

Download the complete set of slides here.

For further questions or comments, just drop me a line at martin.rehfeld@glnetworks.de.

Entry Filed under: Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services, Presentations