I have a fabfile I made to deploy to EC2. https://gist.github.com/860576 Edit: It takes a lot less than 1 hour

I'm thinking about writing a series of how-tos describing how to set up something like this with EC2 and Puppet - in my tests, I can go from bare-metal to a running app in under ten minutes. That's including the OS install (for physical/VMWare-based servers) and provisioning time (for EC2-based servers).

I have recently been testing it with a pretty basic Django app, but I have previously had success with large PHP CMSs, including all of the moving parts such as the DB server etc.

Would you be interested in reading these, if I make them a bit more Django-centric and push all the code to github?