So last night, James Elwood, Geezeo’s network master ninja, and I both presented at the Amazon Startup Project - Boston event.

We finally got to meet some of the great folks we’ve been working with over the past few months who’ve been helping us get our infrastructure set up with AWS. Our presentation went over the various ways that we use AWS, as well as our short term plans for AWS. Here’s what one blogger had to say:

There was also a lot of creativity leveraging EC2 to support production environment. Geezeo, located in Boston, have put everything on EC2: Front-end, app-servers, and database. Because MySQL replication and clustering is relatively easy, they could set up a small MySQL farm and then do frequent off-site backups to S3 (Amazon’s Simple Storage Service — you pay for that, but it’s not too expensive). Geezeo is sort of a mix of Quicken and Facebook. I’d been very leery of Geezeo because I don’t think I want my bank data up in the cloud. But after this presentation, I think they may have a good architecture for security; I might actually try them now. Which is saying a lot, because if you had told me their service was in EC2 before I saw their presentation, it would have actually increased my worry. They have SSL in the right places, and, apparently, private IPs running in EC2. Nice job.

The current services we use from AWS are the Elastic Compute Cloud and S3 (simple storage service), however we have plans to incorporate more AWS services to help us with various tasks we have planned, so stay tuned!

The other presenters were AideRSS, Curbside MD and WeoGeo.