Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?

Would love to know this too.

What about EC2 do you want to know? EC2 itself is pretty agnostic, I mean it's just like having a linux box?

Do you want guides to the EC2 API?

In my case, its Rails and Postgres with some in-memory addons later. In links?

I have found the EC2 guide at http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EC... to be the most useful.

PS: I have started using EC2 in the past few months only. Their forums are also pretty informative and supportive.

That's a somewhat difficult questions to answer, and it depends on which aspect of EC2 you're interested in. EC2 isn't really a thing for which there are tutorials because EC2 is essentially a server to rent, It's how you use EC2, and there's hardly a standard for that currently. I think the more important thing is to become familiar with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a whole, of which EC2 is only a part. There are some AWS SDK's which I find wildly helpful. Here's the docs for the php sdk http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSDKforPHP/latest/#i=Ama...

following other people companies who are using AWS can be a great way discover ways of using AWS. Netflix operates a great blog. http://techblog.netflix.com/

If you're interested in in just renting a server, and putting Wordpress on it, there are tutorials for that, and you'll have to deal with setting up a web server, domain name etc... But perhaps you're interested in learning about how build out a scalable protein folding cluster, and the set of challenges will be completely different. AWS only provides the hardware and you must create whatever you wish to implement.