Amazon EC2. Web-based Cloud Computing Management Platform by RightScale. Drupal and Amazon EC2 Quick Start | Tag1 Consulting, Inc. With all the excitement surrounding cloud computing, and specifically Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Beta service, I decided it was time to give it a try myself. Without much personal background in the new service, I found that there are an overwhelming number of pages talking about EC2, and even Drupal on EC2, but didn't locate a simple guide to quickly get me up and running. Having now spent a few hours today learning the basics, I'm jotting down these quick notes to help the next person interested in trying the same, and in the hopes of attracting useful tips from other AWS users.
Register With Amazon My first visit was to the Amazon Web Services home page, where I clicked the 'Click here to sign up! ' link to create my new Amazon Web Services account (you can also sign in with your existing Amazon account, if you have one). Worldwide Inc. Amazon EC2 und S3 Alternativen - Oliver Kießler’s Weblog.