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rabidsnail on Oct 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others

Note to all the postgres users cursing EBS right now: you can persist your db instances to s3 with https://github.com/heroku/WAL-E, which, combined with streaming replication and some redundancy, should let you run off ephemeral disk.

joevandyk on Oct 22, 2012 [–]

I recommend this as well. Performance is way more consistent on the instance/ephemeral storage as well.

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