Deploying on EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud. It is one of the largest and most popular clouds. Many other cloud platforms run on EC2. You can run any application on EC2 by creating and deploying a disk image. Amazon then provides API to replicate the image while sharing part of the file system.

A description of the entire process is beyond the scope of this book but, assuming you have an existing Amazon EC2 account, you can use the Turnkey Hub find and deploy a ready made web2py image:

https://hub.turnkeylinux.org/amazon/launch/web2py/

Once your image is deployed you can login into it as a normal VPS and you can manage (backup/restore/copy) it via the Amazon EC2 web interface.