How to deploy a play framework application with MySQL database

How to deploy a play framework application with MySQL database

I have written a web application using Play Framework 2.1.0 in Java, with
an existing MySql database on my pc. Now I want to deploy the app and my
database on a server or a cloud platform like amazon ec2. But I get some
questions:
Cloud platform is easy to use, but I don't know which one should I choose.
Some cloud platform service doesn't support mysql database, like google
app engine. So I want to find one that can import mysql database easily
and can be set up easily.Can you guys give me some suggestions and some
tutorials about setting play framework on it?
I get a server without any OS on it now. But I don't know how to set it up
to run my play framework application. It seems that I have to install a
server application like apache or something else. Which one is better? And
can you give me some tutorials about how to set a play framework on an
linux system, like ubuntu?