Darkstar on Amazon EC2?

Networking & Multiplayer
#1

Hi,

I was wondering about the feasibility of running Project Darkstar on a service such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This seems like exactly the sort of scalable service provider necessary to make the scalable architecture of darkstar work.

Does EC2 fit the technical requirements of Darkstar?

Does EC2 fit the business model requirements of Darkstar?

A pre-made deployable package for EC2 that users would only have to customize by adding their game engine logic would be a super way to help people get started.

On a side-note: are there any other services comparable to EC2 that would also be relevant?

#2

Im afraid I don’t know enough about Amazon’s EC2.

A full Darkstar back end can be deployed on a variety of hardware configurations but performance will be gated to some degree by that net’s construction. This means more then just the CPUs and includes the network infrastructure connecting them.