So you've determined that deploying your application in the Amazon cloud environment provides you with substantial advantages over traditional deployment approaches.

First off - you've made a good decision - scalability is easy, cost is flexible, based on what you consume. In addition, you no longer need to pay people to maintain the hardware you once used.  Now it's time to get down to brass tacks and move your application to the cloud...  It seems so easy but there are some important challenges to address.  This post will attempt to help you with a few of the application profiles and challenges we see commonly from our customers.