How To Cloud

Amazon EC2 (Getting Started Guide)

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Getting Started Guide has some great information… on… getting started?

Using Ruby to connect to S3 from EC2

This is absolutely the best article I’ve seen on using Ruby to connect to S3. It has screenshots and a great walkthrough. Read this article! Great job Jack (Jack Harrington - he wrote it).

Amazon EC2 and EBS

This is a great walkthrough for attaching an EBS drive. Most of the persistant storage guide comes from following Grig’s steps. He explains it perfectly!

Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS

Even if you think Django is a strange fruit from the Amazon rainforest, this tutorial is worth checking out. He screenshots and explains EBS. Written by Thomas Brox Røst. If my name had an “o” in it, I’d put a line through it too.

Getting Started with Amazon EC2

A great getting started guide written by Paul Stamatiou. I had to check that page twice and I probably still spelled his name wrong.

I know what you’re thinking. With all these great guides, why howtocloud.com? I woke up way to early the other day. Started taking screenshots… and… here we are.

How to change the mysql database location.

Let’s face it. You have to store your database somewhere so that it will persist. After creating and attaching your volume, you may find these steps useful.