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My concern has always been, ruby (or any other complex application) is going to compile differently on like but different systems. Over long periods of time I'd be concerned that I…

Understood, however AWS manages the association to block level storage, as well as the performance tuning. You can still operate with ephemeral compute decoupled from storage.

EBS performance is notoriously variable by orders of magnitude. Amazon is working on this, however my personal belief is that using block storage creates an undesirable link betwee…

I'm looking to implement a monitoring solution for an AWS hosted application. I don't want to re-invent the wheel, and would like to focus my efforts on tools that are built to: * …

Given my experience, you are advocating way to much reliance on EBS. The nature of block storage makes it a poor choice for cloud attached storage. Apps should be designed for rede…

True, I may not have worded it correctly. I think the best comparison is between RHEL and Amazon's Linux distribution.

Agreed, however I've been feeling for a while that Red Hat is becoming the new Solaris. Everything takes twice as long and is a couple revs out of date when compared to other distr…

We have been working with Red Hat (yeah, big enterprise), however I'm inclined to advocate for a switch to Amazon's Linux. Like to hear others perspective.

Big +1 for Daemon, one of the best modern science fiction novels I've read.