Logan Besecker's questions

I am trying to decide which database I should use for an application I'm making. I was leaning toward dynamoDB because of its scalability, but then I read in the documentation which said:

there is a limit of 64 KB on the item size

although it looks like MySQL has a similar restriction documented here

This application will be storing a lot of data in two arrays, which could contain upwards of 10,000-100,000 strings in each. I estimate that these strings will each be somewhere around 20 characters long, so each element of the array will be around 40bytes and each array could be around 4MB.

Given this predicament, what database on amazon AWS would you use; or how would you get around the limit of size per row?

I'm trying to get my feet wet with amazon web services and have SSH my instance and created a user, named logan, with admin rights. I then connected to the EC2 instance with the username and password I had created for the account using Cyberduck and uploaded a plain HTML file to make sure I had things working.

For some reason I cannot connect through my browser to:

home/logan/testtestesttest.html

I get a 404 page not found error.

I know that Apache was successfully installed though because if I type the elastic IP address in my address bar without any location afterword I get the "It works!" default page.

As far as the security groups for the instance go, I have HTTP open on port 80 to all IP addresses(0.0.0.0/0) and SSH open to my personal IP on port 22.

Thanks in advance,

-Logan