Tonight I set up our MMO on
Amazon Web Services. I must say I really like the system. I know it's in beta, but so far what I'm seeing I like. I do not think it would work for a full population MMO, but the bandwidth is much better than my home machine. The
AMI (Amazon Machine Image) is slower than our current beta server, but worth the trade. I'm sure you probably could cluster machine images or move processes to different images as well for performance increase.
There are also two larger base image options with increased memory and processors.
Either way our game is running at 45-60 FPS which is an improvement merely from bandwidth. I documented all of this on our private wiki, but there is too much private information to post that here. It's about three pages of information.
Here is my success picture from when I got the default AMI engine up and running.
