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How to Setup your Drupal site on EC2

Master the cloud and feel good.
Configuration, Set-Up & Performance

How to Setup your Drupal site on EC2

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

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Have you wanted to set your site up on the Amazon EC2 Cloud and run your Drupal site on it. Have you wondered about what the language you hear, Elastic IP, EBS Volumes, Snapshots, Instances? Been confused about what it costs to run your web sites on EC2?

This will clear the fog up for you so you can start to use EC2 as your host.

We will go over the language of Amazon cloud hosting.
Setting up and instance and attaching an EBS volume
Looking at scripts to automate the restore and setup of an EBS disk.
Adding an Elastic IP address
Taking snap Shots of your EBS and why thats awesome!

At the end we will look at our instance and run some stress tests on it so we can take a look at its performance. We wil look at ab bench mark testing and Jmeter testing.

At end of this session you will be able to understand EC2 hosting and why its so cool.

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