Our traffic is spike-oriented. ✤ Auto-managed AWS services are really helpful. ✤ They improve their service continually. ✤ The uptime of some of their services is 99.999999999%
“Events” page of the admin console. ✤ Use always more than one AZ. ✤ We reached the maximum number of instances of EC2! ✤ Pre-heat the ELBs (open a ticket in the support area).
one region. ✤ Automate fallbacks to other regions. ✤ Be prepared to have a 2nd plan to synchronise services. ✤ No messages lost, but receive them more than once (maybe).
✤ We’re trying to migrate gradually. ✤ Check ClassicLink to facilitate the process. ✤ Create a VPN to get access to your network. ✤ Use a Route53 internal domain to name your services.
and there was no UI for Autoscaling in AWS. ✤ Other tools were too overkill for us. ✤ We wanted something small, quick and for CLI. ✤ We wanted to play around with AWS API :)