Merge/Remove abandoned AWS projects

Recommend the Cloud module be taken into consideration for such a discussion:

http://drupal.org/node/919966

Well, core uses the libraries concept to integrate third party libraries and the libraries project attempts to further that. The project/awssdk simply provides a definition for awssdk and a drush make file so it can be used to automatically download the library. I use a set of drush make scripts so that I can build out a side of 40+ modules with one command so this is a critical feature for me. The variables for configuration seems like a good Drupal integration, although I assume it still means the configuration file has to be places where the library wants it, not sure if we can do something more automatic. Regardless be happy to merge that into awssdk I think it has a good namespace if that is ok with you? I can just give you commit access and we can move from there. Additionally, we can make libraries optional so you just get the variables stuff, but I think the libraries API is the way to go.

Lets discuss the best way to include variable configuration http://drupal.org/node/1114744#comment-4341052.

I will gladly abandon s3_api, which indeed does not seem to be supported, as long as any common project resulting from the discussion here provides with clear alternatives to s3_api's functions such as
$ttt = $s3->putObject(S3::inputFile($filepath), $s3_api_bucket, $filename, variable_get('s3_api_default_perm', ACL_PUBLIC_READ),array(),$requestHeaders);

@muldos: is there anything else we need to do before you proceed?

I've looked at these projects but I'm still not quite sure which modules I need and where I'll need to add and adapt. It's definitely a situation where I thought I'd ask before wasting hours on testing and trying them all.

Let me tell you my situation:

I have a live video chat server setup in an Amazon EC2. It's a medium or large ec2 since the video chat sessions tend to eat a lot of resources depending on number of viewers and broadcasters. Anyways, these chat sessions are relatively rare maybe a few times a week for a few hours. So what I'd like to do setup a "meetings" content type with date/time and then use scheduler/cron run to start the EC2 server with one of the above mentioned "AWS modules." The goal is to start the server a an hour or two before the meeting, then turn it off an hour or two after.

Can anyone recommend which Drupal module or modules I should use to accomplish this?

NOTE: This is for Drupal 7. Also I'm not sure how this work on "merging" of multiple projects went but I'd be willing to help on this if it fits "roughly" into / alongside my above requirements.

Thanks in advance for the help...