---
title: "Zack Rosen on Drupal Cloud hosting with Amazon EC2"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/zack-rosen-on-drupal-cloud-hosting-with-amazon-ec2"
type: episode
date: 2009-09-28
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Zack Rosen on Drupal Cloud hosting with Amazon EC2

#  Zack Rosen on Drupal Cloud hosting with Amazon EC2 

  

*Podcast episode player*

Zack Rosen of [Chapter 3](http://www.chapterthree.com/) talks about Cloud hosting for Drupal with [Amazon EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) as well as:

- the three [Get Pantheon](https://pantheon.io/) Amazon EC2 machine instances including:
- [Mercury](https://pantheon.io/mercury) performance optimized server configurations using [Pressflow Drupal](https://www.fourkitchens.com/pressflow-makes-drupal-scale)
- [Vulcan](https://pantheon.io/vulcan) Amazon EC2 machine instance for Continuous Integration using the [Hudson Continuous Testing/Integration system](https://hudson.dev.java.net/)
- [Aegir](https://pantheon.io/aegir) Amazon EC2 machine instance
 for rapidly deploying multiple Drupal sites using the [Aegir hosting system](http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system)

- Main differences between Amazon EC2 and other hosting options
- Chapter 3's motivations for releasing these projects
- Drawbacks to Cloud hosting

**For more information:**

- [Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) group](http://groups.drupal.org/amazon-web-services-s3-ec2) on g.d.o
- [Get Pantheon](https://pantheon.io/)

[Download](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/609/DrupalVoices051.mp3)