Does anyone of you use the Amazon EC2 service with gentoo-based instances?
I just dig into the provided services there and wonder how to possibly find a useful use case for me. OK, I could rent a High-CPU-instance and emerge libreoffice in a few minutes maybe ;-) But I am interested if any of you use this and what for? Especially: are there gentoo-based AMIs to be recommended? I assume that it won't make much sense to try to setup a mail gateway up there ... moving IP-adresses etc. seem to make that rather inconvenient and a plain VPS somewhere might be better and cheaper? Another case is S3: I research stuff like s3fs and doing encrypted backups via duplicity and even amanda (using S3 as storage). That looks promising for some use cases ... Greets, Stefan
