Scaling an AWS Infrastructure - Tools And Patterns

[Mark Bate]

I know a lot of the list members are new to AWS, so I figured I'd share this article from High Scalability (great blog):
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/8/16/scaling-an-aws-infrastructure-tools-and-patterns.html

It's a long read, but it does a great job of describing some of the pros / cons & best practices for AWS.