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Ask HN: Any tutorials/widsom on AWS Beanstalk, given the Heroku story
5 points by JuDue 4873 days ago
Anyone got some good tutorials on running Rails & Postgres on AWS Beanstalk?

I still think Heroku is an excellent choice, and will be better once they address some issues, but now might be a good time to explore some options, at least :)

2 comments

I'm curious about the pricing situation on Elastic Beanstalk. T1.micro instances are very affordable, but is it wise to run a webapp and Postgres on the same instance? I'm not expecting a large audience, but I've heard that one should generally have separate servers for the two.
> but is it wise to run a webapp and Postgres on the same instance?

This really depends on the level of traffic you expect. For lower amounts, it works fine.