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Re:"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of perform... by PaulHoule on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:03PM (#2341968)
Word in the industry is that AWS is insanely profitable, so they've got not problem finding the money to hire the help.

My gripe with EBS is that hiccups in EBS cause my Linux instances to "lock up", consume 100% CPU and become unresponsive. AMZN is providing their own Linux distribution and drivers for the EBS devices so they can also attack this problem by patching the Linux kernel.

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Re:"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of perform... by epi0Bauqu on Friday March 18, 2011 @08:06PM (#2342524)
If you switch to their distribution, do you get any benefit now?
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Re:"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of perform... by PaulHoule on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:25AM (#2346442)
Compatibility with the platform is excellent and it's comfortable for anyone who's familiar with Red Hat or Fedora.

I'd compile my own web server stack, but it's as good a foundation to build on as any Linux distribution.

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