Explain AWS
jawngee: a. Unless you like throwing money out the window, there is no need to host your stuff on AWS.  It's the most expensive of the cloud offerings.  Go with Linode or Slicehost.b. You'll have to use EBS if you want persistent disk storage with an AWS instance.  Otherwise when you reboot, goodbye to everything on your harddisk.But, seriously, reconsider your aims of putting up a 24/7 web hosted up on EC2.  You're wasting money.