title: Running NServiceBus on Amazon EC2
body: <p>So I have seen a number of references and links from a year +/- ago asking about support for <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7403838/using-nservicebus-in-an-amazon-ec2-hosted-application">NServiceBus on Amazon EC2</a>.  Wondering if anyone out there has attempted to do anything with this recently?</p>
  
  <p>I have seen the following articles/posts but fear the information and related links are dated.  </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://meisinger2.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/head-in-the-clouds/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A Less Than Positive Experience w/NServiceBus on Amazon EC2</a><br>
  <a href="http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/nservicebus/message/258" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The right idea, any movement on this?</a><br>
  <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nservicebus/message/13085" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Azure Love, but no Amazon?</a></p>
  
  <p>I see a lot of chatter on the NServiceBus forums about the "next version" having a big focus on support for the cloud (at the time the current version was 2.5).  I have a scenario where I would like to run NServiceBus w/MSMQ or RabbitMQ on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances but it concerns me that there is not more discussion around people actually using NServiceBus on Amazon.  </p>
  
  <p>Anyone doing it successfully or have reasons to avoid considering it?</p>
  
  <p>[EDIT] - Does anyone know if using reserved instances gets around the issue with EC2 restarts described in the article above?</p>