I got this error message tonight when I tried to allocate another EIP from within RightScale’s dashboard. So it turns out there is a maximum of 5 (E)IPs on all AWS accounts, but there’s a contact form to request more. Meh. I wish AWS would make this part slightly easier, e.g. by announcing a customer’s own IP space.
Here’s a little HowTo on how to setup CouchDB on an AWS EC2 instance. But outside of AWS (and EC2), this setup works on any other Ubuntu server, and I suppose Debian as well. Getting started The following steps are a rough draft, or a sketch on how to get started. I suggest that you familiarize yourself with what all of these things do. If you want to skip on the reading and just get started, this should work anyway....