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Good article - it discusses things in a good way to get an overall quick look into how the ecosystem works.

I'm yet to play with AWS on any significant level, but this is the kind of thing to bookmark.

Further to that, are there any recommendations for books/sites/entries that discuss more best practices?



I've not found any, which is part of why I wrote this post! It seems a lot of people blow time and money re-discovering these things.


http://alestic.com/ is the best thing I've come across (Ubuntu focused, but many general solutions as well).

FWIW, we (at DuckDuckGo) ended up in much the same place: ditched EBS, avoid anything that relies on EBS, and multi-zone and multi-region redundancy (also for latency purposes). For ephemeral storage purposes, we end up mainly using xlarge machines since they have the greatest stability and speed (with 4 drives in RAID-0).


Is there not a feed for that site?


http://feeds.alestic.com/alestic




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