People can say what they want, but EC2 is not really about scale. It's about on-demand resources. Which can help with scale, but it's not an automatic solution

People can say what they want, but EC2 is not really about scale. It's about on-demand resources. Which can help with scale, but it's not an automatic solution like AppEngine for example. You might be able to provision a huge box there faster than anywhere else right now (e.g. m1 4xl - 68.4G (!!) of memory and 8 cores -- $2.40/hr or $0.80/hr with spot pricing) and move your app over, but that'd just be scaling up, not out.