dontjinxit

I've been trying to improve the performance of my Drupal sites for the longest time. Finally, I've decided to jump in and give Project Mercury and Pressflow a crack. This is a log of that adventure.

I was having trouble with this command from the AWS command line tools. Other commands were working so I knew I was connecting ok to my account. Turns out adding the following to my .bash_profile fixed the problem:

export EC2_URL="https://ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com"

use ec2-describe-regions to see regions. 

When you first visit your Project Mercury/Pressflow instance on EC2,you will be asked to choose a Drupal installation profile: ProjectMercury or Pressflow. Choose Project Mercury. You can find moreinformation on this by shelling into your PM instance as root andreading the README.txt

In the Panthon Group, they make a distinction of installing a preconfigured EC2 AMI stack or "rolling your own" using a very complex bunch of steps. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/50408