Re:Fallacies of Distributed Computing
by abraham on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:09PM
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You set those scripts up yourself though so AWS is not automatically providing it. AWS does make it easy and cheap though.
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A lot of it is actually just configuration of their auto-scaling mechanism. If a web front end stops working it starts new instances according to the pool minimums and CPU load. There are some custom scripts though, mostly for migrating data to another zone.