http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/janitor-monkey-keeping-cloud-tidy-and.html Open Source tool from netflix to automatically “clean up” unused resources (ec2 instances, ebs volumes, etc)
http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/janitor-monkey-keeping-cloud-tidy-and.html Open Source tool from netflix to automatically “clean up” unused resources (ec2 instances, ebs volumes, etc)
http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/janitor-monkey-keeping-cloud-tidy-and.html Open Source tool from netflix to automatically “clean up” unused resources (ec2 instances, ebs volumes, etc)
http://openfoo.org/blog/amazon_ec2_underlying_architecture.html Some description of EC2 Internals. EC2s are XEN VMs, mine is currently using Xen 3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.f , which appears to be F14 Xen package re-build on RHEl5.x (this is by looking at compiler version) . Some info in the article appears to a bit outdated
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ Postmortem for the April-2011 EC2/EBS outage. It looks like a human errors plus unfortunate cascade of events lead to a requests storm that brought down EBS storage. Also, it appears that Amazon mis-estimated spare storage capacity needed for recovery from such events.