# Building an Amazon Discourse pilot, planning for scale

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-an-amazon-discourse-pilot-planning-for-scale/45458/3 "2016-06-09T04:13:00Z")

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Thanks Matt - is this the best/current guide to doing that on DO?

> **[Discourse | DigitalOcean Marketplace 1-Click App](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/discourse)**
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> The popular Ruby-on-Rails-based discussion platform

As regards Amazon, we have our existing infrastructure of 15 wordpress (multitenant) sites on Amazon (another volunteer looks after that and he’ll be coming on board with this when time allows), so I have a preference to have it hosted there if I can find a clear step by step to share with him.

That said, if it’s simple to move from DO to somewhere else (Amazon/Discourse MS) with all customisations maintained then I think a little droplet might be the quickest way to get up and running.

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