Netflix

http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-in-the-cloud-2011 Slides from Adrian Cockcorft, Netflix director of cloud systems about current state [for 2011] of Netflix’s AWS-based architecture

http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws.html Notes from netflix tech blog about some key points of their EC2-based infrastructure design. Note that netflix is not affected by the current EBS problems in AWS US-EAST region. Their key point seems to be to equally split your infrastructure between 3 AZs (availability zones) and run at ~30% capacity, so if 2 AZs fail (as we have now) you would still running in one AZ @ 90%

http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.html interesting post (it made to /.) about dataning and statistics. make sure u read comments as well.