MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
A good write up from the people who know.
Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage
Netflix is yet again the best source of AWS information.
Lessons learned from deploying a production database in EC2
Fantastic article on scaling MySQL (really any (No)Sql DB) on EC2.
MongoDB in the Amazon Cloud
Great summary of 10gen webinar on MongoDB on AWS.
The Big List of Articles on the Amazon Outage
This meta post is a gold mine.
Understanding and using Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store
Must read for people doing NoSQL on AWS
Y Combinator
What Y Combinator startups are using for hosting.
