FuzEc2 is a dumb helper script to automate all the stuff I was doing manually for testing stacks of EC2 instances running a webapp on Fuzed. Usage is thus: $ cp fuze.example fuze $ vim fuze (change all the configs) $ ./fuze This will list the things you can do with the script $ ./fuze spin This will show you all the instance types you can spin, eg: available types: INST TYPE RAM(GB) CU DISK ARCH COST/H m1.small 1.7 1 160 32 0.1 m1.large 7.5 4 850 64 0.4 m1.xlarge 15.0 8 1690 64 0.8 c1.medium 1.7 5 350 32 0.2 c1.xlarge 7.0 20 1690 64 0.8 Then you can start spinning instances via: $ ./fuze spin m1.small To see which instances you have running, type: $ ./fuze list i-213ff448 domU-12-31-39-00-C0-02 ec2-75-101-131-181.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running i-1839f271 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-C6 ec2-67-202-36-240.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running i-a633f8cf domU-12-31-39-00-5D-87 ec2-75-101-225-2.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running i-b839f2d1 domU-12-31-39-00-E8-C3 ec2-75-101-131-128.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running i-5732f93e domU-12-31-39-00-8D-91 ec2-75-101-205-249.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running i-0b33f862 domU-12-31-39-00-8D-71 ec2-75-101-200-57.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running i-c833f8a1 domU-12-31-39-00-95-11 ec2-75-101-213-58.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running i-163cf77f domU-12-31-39-00-22-21 ec2-67-202-40-157.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.xlarge running i-3b3df652 domU-12-31-39-00-C0-B7 ec2-75-101-254-200.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running To make those instances into certain Fuzed node types, do thusly: $ ./fuze attach_master i-b839f2d1 # creates a master node - do this first $ ./fuze attach_faceplate i-1839f271 # creates a faceplate $ ./fuze attach_frontend i-213ff448 # creates an haproxy node - do this after you add faceplates $ ./fuze attach_rails i-5732f93e # creates a rails node Then you'll probably want to assign your frontend a static IP: $ ec2-allocate-address # to get a static IP if you don't have one $ ec2-associate-address YOUR.NEW.IP.ADDY -i i-213ff448 # assign your static IP to your haproxy node To add more rails backend nodes, just do: $ ./fuze spin c1.xlarge # wait a minute for it to spin $ ./fuze list # grab the new i-xxxxxx instance id $ ./fuze attach_rails i-xxxxxx That's it - your capacity goes up. For faceplates, you do this: $ ./fuze spin m1.small # wait a minute for it to spin $ ./fuze list # grab the new i-xxxxxx instance id $ ./fuze attach_faceplate i-xxxxxx $ ./fuze attach_frontend i-213ff448 # re-run this to make haproxy rewrite and restart You can see the stats on your haproxy node by visiting here: http://your-frontend-address/haproxy?stats And then enter the username/password you put in your config file to get access. Here is an example of one big-ass cluster: $ ./fuze list frontend i-213ff448 domU-12-31-39-00-C0-02 ec2-75-101-131-181.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running faceplate i-1839f271 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-C6 ec2-67-202-36-240.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running faceplate i-a633f8cf domU-12-31-39-00-5D-87 ec2-75-101-225-2.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running faceplate i-4a33f823 domU-12-31-39-00-5D-D4 ec2-67-202-52-242.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running master i-b839f2d1 domU-12-31-39-00-E8-C3 ec2-75-101-131-128.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running rails i-5732f93e domU-12-31-39-00-8D-91 ec2-75-101-205-249.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-0b33f862 domU-12-31-39-00-8D-71 ec2-75-101-200-57.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-c833f8a1 domU-12-31-39-00-95-11 ec2-75-101-213-58.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-4f33f826 domU-12-31-39-00-90-21 ec2-75-101-199-42.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-0933f860 domU-12-31-39-00-8D-B1 ec2-75-101-206-32.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-cd33f8a4 domU-12-31-39-00-91-61 ec2-75-101-205-227.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-3633f85f domU-12-31-39-00-8C-71 ec2-75-101-195-69.compute-1.amazonaws.com c1.xlarge running rails i-163cf77f domU-12-31-39-00-22-21 ec2-67-202-40-157.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.xlarge running rails i-3b3df652 domU-12-31-39-00-C0-B7 ec2-75-101-254-200.compute-1.amazonaws.com m1.small running Watch out, though - that particular cluster costs about $6.40/hour to run - thats $150 a day, so don't forget about it. It's unlikely you'll need it, even with really crappy Rails apps, that should process a freak-load of requests per second, it represents about 350 Rails handlers and something like 60 cores.