Today I set up a new D7 instance on Amazon Web Services.
Some basics about it:
- The EC2 instance is based on an Ubuntu 12.10.
- apt-get install added apache2, php5, then mysql, xml, mcrypt, mbstring and gd (sometimes the exact names were php5-name, e.g., php5-mcrypt.
- Article at http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/build-a-drupal-installation-on-amazon-ec2/5231 was a helphful checklist.
- After the installation, df -h showed 6.3 Gb available out of 7.9 Gb total. Lots of room.