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Re:AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started by ErrantX on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:40AM (#7176206)
I don't really follow you here; AWS is infrastructure. So all the chef/puppet stuff has to happen anyway.

The benefit of AWS is that you have some immediate bootstrap, and simple auto scaling. This last is a killer feature. Being able to scale your caches and load balances silently, based on metrics, is a real time and money saver.

Sure. You need to have a level of scale to need that :) but when you do, AWS can have some good features.

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Re:AWS Tips I Wish I'd Known Before I Started by banachtarski on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:21PM (#7180008)
When I said AWS I was speaking more about the entire ecosystem which includes a load balancer, databases with failover, snapshotting, backups, dns lookups, and more.
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