If you are using EC2, expect your instances to randomly disappear and possibly not come back. I'd have a warm standby for your database and definitely have bac

If you are using EC2, expect your instances to randomly disappear and possibly not come back. I'd have a warm standby for your database and definitely have backups using either s3 or EBS. As someone else mentioned, you may be better off starting with linode or <insert favorite VPS company> and as you grow start planning on moving to ec2 if needed