EC2 LAMP Stack Implementation Options and Considerations

I was just starting to look into ways to improve our LAMP stack implementation on EC2, but I need to clean up and concentrate on some other tasks. This is what I found so far:


I also went back to basics a bit and started reading some amazon literature which does seem to have been updated since years ago when I started fiddling with EC2. I should read this stuff again to make sure I’m not making silly mistakes of oversight.


Now, to actually set up an ec2 instance with apache and php, using mysql from an rds instance, I followed these guides: