Maintaining a production DB containing 15-25M rows show best improvement with the use of RAID0 on EC2 platform. Having a MySQL master-slave replication of servers and keeping the documented procedure is very handy for restoring the DB and the RAID volumes. Documenting the process on downgrading and upgrading RAID0+MySQL from large to xlarge EC2 instance [...]

After the release of New Amazon EC2 Feature: Boot from Elastic Block Store , there are folks asking on AWS forum on how to create an EBS Boot AMI and so I’m posting another way to do it. I hope this will be plain and simple to follow. Note that I’m using Create EBS Boot [...]