- Performance Tuning EC2 Instances Slideshare
- Performance Tuning Linux Instances on EC2
- The MSRs (Model Specific Registers) of EC2
- No VPC support
- major version lag, currently offers 2.3, while 2.4 was released 31 Aug 16, 2.4.1 was released 28 Sep 16, but reportedly "took a year" to get to 2.3
- doesn't support plugins
- can change IP without warning
- if address is referenced through Route53 with AWS ALIAS record, TTL is 60s. Alias records are resolved by Route 53, while CNAME records are resolved by the client