Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2)

I have a client that wants me to develop an image and video library which I've already done with Drupal since the taxonomy among other things works very well. My challenge now is to handle the storage requirements. Initially we will need about 1TB and eventually about 2TB. Amazon S3 seemed like a great option, both cost effective and scalable. I just can't figure out how to have the system/modules store the images in my bucket rather than a directory on the server.

hey guys, i just setup the amazon micro instance using Bitnami :) . its easy process to create and running in drupal in couple of minutes. Am happy by it, but if we need to upload any modules.. am not getting any idea, how to upload the modules and activate in drupal ??
need help guys

I'm trying to create an AMI from my running Amazon instance. My running instance is a mercury 1.1beta which I initiated from the public Mercury 1.1beta public AMI.

I'm using this command where 123456789123 is my actual Amazon user ID:

$ sudo ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt/amis -k /mnt/ids/pk-*.pem -c /mnt/ids/cert-*.pem -u 123456789123 -r i386

I get the following:

Copying / into the image file /mnt/amis/image...
Excluding:
/sys/kernel/debug
/sys/kernel/security
/sys
/var/log/mysql
/var/lib/mysql
/mnt/mysql
/proc
/dev/pts
/dev
/dev
/media
/mnt

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if anyone has any experience running Drupal on AWS with at least Aegir. Ideally I'm thinking it would be great to have a setup similar to Pantheon's new service but I'm not sure I can wait that long.

It seems so basic but I have not found discussion.

Is there a reason why CNAME can not be used to replace the typical sites/default/files with an Amazon S3 or Cloudfront bucket?

I simply want to let users upload videos and images and Amazon S3 seems a safe option.

I simply want a fast, quick option. My understanding is Drupal 7 will improve CDN options. I am not a professional developer.

Thanks for any insight.

I'm hoping there are some really simple questions to these answers, but I'm wondering how to setup hostname and mail server domain name settings.

I'm using the Pantheon Mercury AMIs to create instances. The server is up and running fine.

When a new user registers, the mail is sent from ec2-79-125-64-6.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com instead of dev.mysite.com. All the links in the email point to the long AWS name instead of the short real name.

A) Do I need to specify a hostname somewhere in the ubuntu server configuration.

Hey, was able to go in today and flesh out the consistent snapshot wiki a bit.

Included taking snapshots if you have an EBS boot drive and deleting snapshots automatically.

If you have a chance take a look. Think it's all working now, but there could be a few typos.

The wiki is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/36766

I've followed the Step by Step Mecury 1.1 Wiki (http://groups.drupal.org/node/70268) successfully and would now like to create an AMI of this instance. It's root device type is EBS and I began with the Alestic AMI (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Canonical, ubuntu EBS boot: ami-714ba518). I used the GUI at the AWS management console and followed their instructions:

To create an Image from an EBS-based Instance
Select an instance that shows "ebs" in the Root Device Type field, click Instance Actions and select Create Image.
The confirmation dialog box appears.

Recently, I began experimenting with ec2 using the Mercury/pressflow ami-e14c1da4. I then installed Aegir on my own before I saw macrocosm's excellent tutorial on how to go about things here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/55393. I didn't attaching any EBS drives, for example.

Now that I've installed Aegir, and my handful of sites, on their various platforms, I would like to keep all that configuration, and make it easy to backup.