[Opensim-users] using AWS for opensim

[Ken Grunke]

I have been "messing about" with the free tier that Amazon Web Services 
offers, by using an instance of Ubuntu 11.10 to run OpenSim on my EC2 
with *cough* 613 mb of RAM and 15 GB allotment of bandwidth going out 
per month. Certainly nothing to write home about, but a good learning 
experience for me.

I have become aware that running OpenSim solely within an EC2 Linux or 
Windows instance is not taking advantage of all that AWS has to offer, 
but haven't much of a clue what, of the various services in regards to 
OS to use, or how.

I am considering upgrading to a paid service on AWS *if* it seems 
worthwhile over the long term, or using a standard VPS if not. In my 
long-term sights is the possibility of a small-scale business hosting 
OpenSim after gaining some experience.

I would be happy to hear from anyone using AWS for OpenSim and their 
thoughts on how to best take advantage of it to the fullest.
  My questions would be:

To what uses could an Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Block Storage, or 
S3 <http://aws.amazon.com/s3>standard storage features be put?
Could I use a MySQL database outside of the instance, for example?

Ken Grunke aka Key Gruin @ OSGrid
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