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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:34:00+00:00

I have a small LAMP application that I want to move to Amazon I

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I have a small LAMP application that I want to move to Amazon

  • I will need Amazon EC2 for this, right?
  • I want my static resources delivered from a CDN. Does that mean I need Amazon’s CloudFront along with EC2? (Or is EC2 also a CDN somehow?)
  • I would also like to use a PHP accelerator (probably APC), memcache, etc. Will I be able to do this on Amazon?
  • Will I still be able to use MySQL? (I ask this because it seems that Amazon also has their own RDBMS; not sure if I am forced to use theirs)
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    I will need Amazon EC2 for this, right?

    Yes.

    I want my static resources delivered from a CDN. Does that mean I need Amazon’s CloudFront along with EC2? (Or is EC2 also a CDN somehow?)

    CloudFront is a CDN, but you can use any other CDN just like you would with a site hosted on your own servers. EC2 is not a CDN.

    I would also like to use a PHP accelerator (probably APC), memcache, etc. Will I be able to do this on Amazon?

    Yes, you have full root access to the server. You can install any software you’d install on a server you owned yourself.

    Will I still be able to use MySQL? (I ask this because it seems that Amazon also has their own RDBMS; not sure if I am forced to use theirs)

    Yes. RDS is neat, but you can always run MySQL on your EC2 server.

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