Amazon EC2

Today, with the help of Wenjie, I was able to provision my first 4 development servers at EC2. It was a really easy process. I had no problems installing the software needed for a MySQL cluster. Although I was unable to figure out the sql-node part of the cluster, I was able to get everything else running in under an hour. EC2 seems like a perfect environment for a test system. Having the ability throw away or create servers with one command is amazing. Setting up firewall rules was really easy too, I definitely recommend checking out EC2.