title: Port LAMP application to EC2
body: <p>Any good resource on how to port a LAMP stack to Ec2?</p>
  
  <p>Mainly I'm concerned about storage, the MySQL part. The existing app works agains a single store. Do I need to port all my storage to S3? Will the EC2 instances be able to share a single MySQL database? Alternatively I can partition my data and have a single database for each EC2 image, but I still need a global user account database for authentication and if the data is partitioned the requests have to be routed to the proper image. Not sure how this is achieved in EC2.</p>
  
  <p>To wrap up: where should I start?</p>