I just deployed to a large instance on one of these and it was fantastic. I'd been on RedHat before, so I had a slight learning curve to the Ubuntu/Debian ways

I just deployed to a large instance on one of these and it was fantastic. I'd been on RedHat before, so I had a slight learning curve to the Ubuntu/Debian ways, but it's a great AMI. Add in a Sprinkle script* to deploy a full Rails/MySql/Passenger stack and I moved a well trafficked production server from Nginx/Mongrel in just a few hours. *http://www.rubyinside.com/passenger-stack-quickly-install-a-full-ruby-and-passenger-stack-1533.html http://www.rubyinside.com/passenger-stack-quickly-install-a-...