I decided to venture out to the scary world of Amazon Web Services. I am far enough along that it makes sense to update this blog about my experience.

I am working with Couchdb and Node.js. I love couch and so far, really enjoy node. I'm deploying this on ubuntu (which is always awesome) on ec2. My current workflow goes like this..

• Reboot in ubuntu
• Make changes to my app, commit and push from git
• ssh into ec2, pull from git
• enjoy

It is as similar to app engine as I could make it. I'm sure going with a provider like heroku or webbynode with iron out the remain hiccups, but I am content with it. Node, couch, cloud, git, I think I have caught up to the cool kids from last year.