Great writeup. I'm just starting to get up to speed on using EC2 and work with Rails too. Did you save that AMI in a way where it's reusable for others? It sou

Great writeup. I'm just starting to get up to speed on using EC2 and work with Rails too. Did you save that AMI in a way where it's reusable for others? It sounds like you were manually spinning up new instances. Have you had a look at CloudWatch? Could that automate the process?