Whitepaper: learn how to run popular relational and NoSQL databases on Aamazon Web Service.

In its dynamic to make its products and services more accessible and comprehensible, AWS and  AWS Solutions Architect Brian Holcomb (a one-time member of the Obama for America
campaign), have release this 14 page paper, with the goal to show you how to launch Riak from the AWS Marketplace and to set up clustering.

The whitepaper covers architecture and scale, data distribution, replication, and node failure. It provides detailed guidelines on a number of operational considerations including EC2 instance sizing, storage configuration, and network configuration. It provides also handy tips for simulating uprades, scaling, and failure states, and also addresses security. If interested you can download this whitepaper here! (pdf).