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AWS Auto-Scaling and ELB with Reliable Root Domain Handling

January 24, 2011

Update May 2011: Now that AWS Route 53 can be used to allow an ELB to host a domain zone apex, the technique described here is no longer necessary. Cool, but not necessary. Someone really has to implement this. I’ve had this draft sitting around ever since AWS announced support for improved CloudWatch alerts and [...]

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Avoiding EC2 InsufficientInstanceCapacity: Insufficient Capacity Errors

October 17, 2009

Here’s a quick tip from this thread on the AWS EC2 Developer Forums. If you experience the InsufficientInstanceCapacity: Insufficient Capacity error, you’ll be glad to know there are some strategies for working around it. Justin@AWS offers this advice: There can be short periods of time when we are unable to accommodate instance requests that are [...]

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