<story><title>Things You Should Know About AWS</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/5/10-things-you-should-know-about-aws.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>&amp;gt; Stripe your RDS disks for better performance&lt;p&gt;This is a fun hack to perform, but it opens you up to another problem: latency on any of the striped EBS volumes will lag out the entire striped array.&lt;p&gt;Attempts to mitigate this problem (including setting up raid 10) work in the short term, but it really is easier to just purchase a guaranteed iops volume if you want to run a database on EC2.</text></comment>
<story><title>Things You Should Know About AWS</title><url>http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/11/5/10-things-you-should-know-about-aws.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vosper</author><text>This is great and all, but I&amp;#x27;d love to see a community wiki &amp;#x2F; discussion area for AWS tips, tricks, and gotchas. Something like Quora crossed with Wikipedia, just for AWS.&lt;p&gt;Is anyone aware of such a thing? If not, any advice for starting one?</text></comment>