Talk:Amazon EC2 Cloud Services Installation

This document followed from a post in Moodle forums the other day ~24th Jan 2008. I did a complete install and have written it up here whilst it was fresh in my mind.

You might choose to add at the beginning how to get the said services. Also, this is not necessarily any good for a "live" moodle as the server does not stay "up" all the time and if you do not backup, it will forget stuff.

For PostgreSQL

Great article. Please could you create a page describing the installation process for using a PostgreSQL database. --Luis de Vasconcelos (talk) 12:34, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Caching Layer

Did you need to add a caching layer, like Redis? If so, please can you add details to this article. --Luis de Vasconcelos (talk) 17:49, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Drawbacks of putting moodledata directory on an EC2 instance

You might want to mention the drawbacks of the moodledata directory on an EC2 instance:

- If a new instance is spun up, it won't have the contents of the moodledata directory on the 'original' instance. In other words, the data source is not persistent. - You cannot reliably share a directory on one instance with another, as far as I know. This means that if you spin up another instance, it won't have access to the moodledata directory on the original instance.

Something to keep in mind when hosting Moodle on an EC2 instance.