Amazon EC2

this PPA may have a more recent version: https://launchpad.net/~smoser... - Mike Chelen

"Effective November 1, 2009, Amazon EC2 will be lowering prices up to 15% for all On-Demand instance families and sizes. For example, a Small Standard Linux-based instance will cost just 8.5 cents per hour of computing, compared to the current price of 10 cents per hour." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"M/DB is a Free Open Source "plug-compatible" alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB database. Outwardly, M/DB behaves identically to SimpleDB, being accessed through the same REST APIs and returning identical responses. The only difference in use is that REST requests are directed at a different domain name or IP address. Note that M/DB isn't a mock service: it's a true database." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"We've created a pre-built AMI that makes it easy to get started with Drupal on EC2. Just start it up and you're ready to go. And it works with any version of Drupal you'd like." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Many Ubuntu and Debian images for Amazon EC2 include a hook where scripts passed as user-data will be run as root on the first boot. At Campus Explorer, we’ve been experimenting with an approach where the actual user-data is a very short script which downloads and runs other scripts. This idea is not new, but I have simplified the process by creating a small tool named runurl which adds a lot of flexibility and convenience when configuring new servers." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"using Ubuntu's official images on Amazon EC2" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Elastic Block Store (EBS) will be used in the next version - Mike Chelen

"MindTouch Deki is a free open source wiki and application platform for communities and enterprises. Deki is an easy to use and sophisticated wiki for authoring, aggregating, organizing, and sharing content. Deki is also a platform for creating collaborative applications, or adding wiki capabilities to existing applications." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet