Amazon web service as Rails hosting, possible?

Is it possible to use Amazon web service to host a 开发者_如何学CRails application?

Thanks.

Yes, you should be able to set that up in several different ways on AWS.

Since you can configure an EC-2 instance much like a dedicated server, you can install any software you want and configure it to your needs.

There are some nice ruby tools here: http://amazon-ec2.rubyforge.org/

Also 37 signals is on AWS - http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/37signals/

I recommend a simple Amazon Linux AMI Micro instance EBS backed to get started on the free tier. http://aws.amazon.com/free/

This more of an Updated Answer.

You can use Elastic BeanStalk for Ruby deployment using Passenger. Checkout the links AWS Elastic Beanstalk Runs Ruby and Integrates with Amazon VPC and AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Ruby Support and VPC Integration

As Tom mentioned, a simple EBS AMI should be enough to get started. At BitNami we have created Ruby on Rails AMIs and make them available for free We also offer a hosting service on top of Amazon that you can combine with the AWS free tier service to basically get free server for 1 year (618Mb RAM, 30gb) which is more than enough for development and light hosting.