Don’t use EC2.
Take it from me, I got ripped off!
I went through this crazy headache of trying out AWS.
First let me tell you, their jargon alone is so confusing, that I don’t recommend using their systems.
Its like you have to relearn everything.
“Reserved Instances” turned out to be memberships, and the caveats for actually having used this discount pricing memberhship correctly, are ridiculous.
Ultimately I have lost about 500 bucks and three months trying out AWS, and I am very dissatisfied with their support and their customer service.
Like what is up with loosing access to your instances?
I turned around and grabbed two dell servers, T110 and T310, called Time Warner, ordered business class internet, and BOOM!
I’ve got two top of the line boxes running Ubuntu 11, and two old boxes running Ubuntu 10.
I couldn’t be happier.