I just finished a presentation at DeRailed - the Denver Rails user-group.

My topic for the evening was two Amazon web services - Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

These two services are very popular in the Rails community, and it showed this evening. I answered close to two-dozen questions about EC2 and S3.

I used Rick Olson's 'beast' application to demonstrate deploying a Rails application to an EC2 server via Capistrano. It actually worked as planned (the WiFi is a bit flaky at our meeting location).

I am convinced that S3 and EC2 are a glimpse into the future of web application development. I highly recommend checking out EC2 and S3 if you have not already.

Here are the slides.