The "Getting started with" guides at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/ are great. Once you're done with those might as well just read the docs at there too.
Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#12The "Getting started with" guides at http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/ are great. Once you're done with those might as well just read the docs at there too.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#13for what language/ framework, do you want the tutorials for? Can you be more specific about it?
Rails and Node.js
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#14That'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 ar…
Hi, I am trying to port some of my Rails and Node.js projects from my computer / Github. So essentially setting up instances and running the respective webservers on these EC2 instances.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#15I know the title says EC2, but if your just looking for a Linux box at roughly the same price, then linode is also a very good option. Railscasts has a couple of screencasts that deal directly with setting up a linux box with Rails and Postgres that I would highly recommend to someone just getting started. It is a pro cast, so it would cost 9 a month, but definitely worth the price.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#16That'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 ar…
Hi, I am trying to port some of my Rails and Node.js projects from my computer / Github. So essentially setting up instances and running the respective webservers on these EC2 instances.
Heroku might be what you need if you don't want to work on setting up all the server side details.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#17That'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 ar…
Hi, I am trying to port some of my Rails and Node.js projects from my computer / Github. So essentially setting up instances and running the respective webservers on these EC2 instances.
Perhaps you desire the additional control and complexity that managing your own instances offers. If that is not the case, maybe try something like Heroku.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#18That'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 ar…
Hi, I am trying to port some of my Rails and Node.js projects from my computer / Github. So essentially setting up instances and running the respective webservers on these EC2 instances.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk (http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/) will make this easy.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#19It sounds like maybe what you really want to learn is the basics of Linux system administration. If you start with that, it will become much clearer how you can use EC2 to host your applications.
Re: Ask HN: What are some good EC2 tutorials for programmers?
#20That'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 ar…
Hi, I am trying to port some of my Rails and Node.js projects from my computer / Github. So essentially setting up instances and running the respective webservers on these EC2 instances.
Keep learning Rails and node. Let AWS set the servers up for you! That's sort of the point after all.
AWS can build your stack (DNS, servers, DB, LB, etc) for you using "Cloud Formation":
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-temp...
Look at "Application Framework Examples" and the templates for "A simple Ruby on Rails "Hello World" application" to start. You can build your whole stack with a single click.
Later on, if you decide you want to be devops instead of dev, you can learn about how these templates were written. Go here to roll your own:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-arti...