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http://aws-musings.com/web-serving-in-the-cloud-our-experiences-with-nginx-and-instance-sizes/

http://aws-musings.com/7-easy-tips-to-reduce-your-amazon-ec2-cloud-costs/

Amazon ec2 costs can grow very fast if you are not mindful of the Amazon ec2 billing structure. We came across the following ways to save money at our company.

http://aws-musings.com/amazon-relational-database-service-rds-the-timezone-problem/

The default time zone of your RDS database instance is UTC. It simply can not be changed. This article goes over some of the approaches you can take to go avoid problems in your date calculations.

http://aws-musings.com/4-easy-steps-to-enable-remote-desktop-on-your-ubuntu-ec2-instance/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=nx

Enabling remote desktop on an ubuntu ec2 instance is pretty easy by using NX. We will use FreeNX at the server and NoMachine NX client on the client machine. NX is a much better alternative to VNC. You can install NoMachine client on windows, mac or linux.

http://aws-musings.com/database-in-cloud-should-i-use-amazon-rds-or-mysql-installed-on-an-ebs-backed-ec2-instance/

Recently Amazon launched RDS – Relational Database Service. Before Amazon offered this service, we had a MySQL configured on an ec2 instance. We needed one more database in cloud. Which way did we go? In this article, I have tried to compare both the options.