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Re:Scaling a Rails Webservice on AWS/EC2 for a #1 iPhone and... by beck5 on Monday July 04, 2011 @11:39AM (#2726799)
I see the EC2's are in different regions but not the RDS, can you choose which region your put your RDS in or is that not a factor?
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Re:Scaling a Rails Webservice on AWS/EC2 for a #1 iPhone and... by SpikeGronim on Monday July 04, 2011 @11:51AM (#2726830)
To clarify they said "availability zones", not "regions", which is a huge difference in terms of latency. And yes, you can tell RDS which availability zone to use.
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