Amazon EC2 cloud-based infrastructure

Hi! Has anyone successfully setup a multi-instance EC2 VPC on AWS? I'm presently running a bunch of EC2 Classic instances easily. I'm trying to make the move to VPC for lower latency and more security on the DB instances, but getting the gateways and internal routing tables setup is kicking my ass. I can't get a connection without routing back out to the internet for both Code and DB instances...this defeats the point.

Hello BOA users around the world. I would like to discuss a possible implementation of BOA in a High-Availability / High-Performance setup.

Preface:
I've been using BOA for my business infrastructure on a Linode VPS for almost a year. I've been working on a relatively large website for the past 6 months that will require some flavor of ha/ hp setup since it will serve well over 30k uniques a month and loads of video streaming.

Desired Architecture hosted on AWS
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Hi everybody,

First of all, I am very new to Drupal and actually not actively coding myself but more involved as a project manager. However, as I've done some programming before and had some computer science modules at university I think I do have a basic grasp on the bigger issues around cloud computing.

We're just finishing a new system which we of course hope will become a huge hit but right now I am more concerned about general hosting issues.

We are currently looking at changing our hosting company so that we can ramp up our resources.

One of the options we looked at was Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). However, we backed away when our intial tests showed that transfer speed weren't very fast.

But, I was just wondering if anyone in the Newspaper on Drupal group has successfully trialled Cloud Computing and, if so, whether there were any tricks and traps if you wanted to run a good-sized Drupal newspaper site on a cloud-based infrastructure.

Cheers,

Geoff