A team working under a DARPA contract moved a system for geolocating iamges from a local cluster to AWS.
- aws s3 => always sync thrice
- do your own key store in the root of your bucket?
- map high volume IO to local ephemeral disks
- if you are using a NAT within a VPC, know that all traffic moves through that instance so size it accordingly
- snapshots are cheap, compressed, differential
- https://libcloud.apache.org/ is a library that abstracts different cloud providers into the same API