Best practice for Nutch 2.x on AWS?

[Michael Chen]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up Nutch 2.x on AWS EC2 clusters, and I was wondering 
if anyone know of a "best set up" for it. The hadoop and hbase version 
in current EMR releases doesn't seem to work with Nutch 2.x. Does it 
sound like a good idea to manually set up Hadoop clusters and then run 
Nutch on it? Will I be able to use S3 as data storage so that I can keep 
the data when EC2 instance stops?

Any suggestions would be very much helpful!

Thanks in advance,

Michael