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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by coolsunglasses on Monday May 20, 2013 @02:21PM (#5739083)
It's not simple, AMIs are a pretty bad idea and not something you should rely on due to the statefulness and vendor lock-in unless you can reproduce it in disparate deployment environments from scripts.
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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by anuraj on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @01:51AM (#5742098)
The AMIs can be imported and work on Eucalyptus private cloud. So there is no lock down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_%28computing%29
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