I agree, I think your development process on EC2 needs a strategy on how to regularly build new AMI images. Probably a mix of updating some things in-place whil

I agree, I think your development process on EC2 needs a strategy on how to regularly build new AMI images. Probably a mix of updating some things in-place while running, and sometimes creating a new baseline AMI image of your whole OS and app, which is then used on the next reboot. Also I would store all dynamic data on RDS (database) and S3 (uploaded files), probably no need for EBS in most web apps.