Moving my LAMP to Amazon

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 beca开发者_高级运维use 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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I think so!

Take a look at this paper -> http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/mysql/

The best to do is open a ticket with them or call it to clear all your doubts. A call is always the best way, you can ask about all your specific needs, then ask for a contract, if it is in a contract you are in a safe side.