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Are there any tutorials, talks or presentations that discuss the use of EC2 or other cloud computing services to host GIS Servers? Has anyone had any experience in doing it with Amazon's EC2? How hard is it to setup? I know that ESRI has some versions of their server products focused especifically to EC2, has anyone had success in using them?

Thank you very much.

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    I would like to tag along onto this question and find out anyones experience with Postgresql/PostGIS on EC2 as well, not just ESRI solutions. – RyanDalton Jan 10 '11 at 22:43
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Here is a page with answers to common questions:

Questions and Answers about ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2

And here's a recorded training seminar:

Running ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2

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The ArcGIS Server Blog has a number of posts about EC2.

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I've been in discussion with esri.

If you are loooking to learn, but not deploy commercially. They allow to "bring your own license" with the EDN (ESRI developer network for a couple of k).

Otherwise you have to either pay for the AMIs they have or bring your own license "commercial". There is no open sandbox so to speak.

After that it is "just" like remote desktop.

I wil probably buy a commercial copy this quarter and convert my edn to the cloud.

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There was a very good webinar put on this topic that gave a case study. It only took them 7 hours to move their application to EC2. It sounded like they had a very successful experience. Here is a link to the slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/dbouwman/arcgis-server-in-ec2

During this webinar esri announced they are planning to offer a 60 trial version of ArcGIS Server on EC2. They made it sound like it was coming soon and this webinar was in late November, so I imagine we should see something on this soon from esri.

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OpenGeo (stack built around GeoServer and PostGIS) have an AMI available and a quick intro to AWS. It worked well for me, with a little tweaking. It's fairly straightforward to get up and running and you can save your own AMI to Amazon S3 once the server's set up the way you want it. The Firefox add-ins for AWS are very handy for managing S3 and EC2 (s3 fox & elastic fox).

http://blog.opengeo.org/2010/09/13/opengeo-suite-community-edition-on-amazon-web-services/

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ESRI and Amazon Web Services Preconfigured here:

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/esri/

Requires ESRI Customer Account and Amazon ID (not cheap)

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