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Scalability and HA Limitations of AWS Marketplace AMIs

April 25, 2012

Reading AWS’s recent announcement of the AWS Marketplace you would think that it provides a catalog of click-to-deploy, highly-available, scalable applications running on EC2. You’d be partially right: the applications available in the AWS Marketplace are deployable in only a few clicks. But highly-available and scalable services will be difficult to build using Marketplace images. [...]

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Elastic Load Balancing with Sticky Sessions

April 8, 2010

At long last, the most oft-requested feature for EC2′s Elastic Load Balancer is here: session affinity, also known as “sticky sessions”. What is session affinity? Why is this feature in such high demand? How can it be used with existing applications? Let’s take a look at these questions. But first, let’s explore what a session [...]

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