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		PaulHoule on March 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of ... Word in the industry is that AWS is insanely profitable, so they've got not problem finding the money to hire the help. My gripe with EBS is that hiccups in EBS cause my Linux instances to "lock up", consume 100% CPU and become unresponsive. AMZN is providing their own Linux distribution and drivers for the EBS devices so they can also attack this problem by patching the Linux kernel.

epi0Bauqu on March 19, 2011 [–]

If you switch to their distribution, do you get any benefit now?

PaulHoule on March 20, 2011 | [–]

Compatibility with the platform is excellent and it's comfortable for anyone who's familiar with Red Hat or Fedora.

I'd compile my own web server stack, but it's as good a foundation to build on as any Linux distribution.

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