[solardev]

I see, thanks for explaining!

Have you also looked into Elastic Beanstalk? It's an older AWS service but it's made to help you handle bursts or scheduled peaks.

[joshstrange]

I was about to say that wouldn't work but EB does appear to let you use a custom AMI which means we could have a FreeBSD host and make use of our full existing stack. I had written it off thinking it was little more constrained, or at least constrained to AL2/linux hosts. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.