There is much buzz regarding the recently announced feature additions to EC2. Namely about Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones. But if you look closely, you will see there were 4 new features added. User Selectable Kernels and New Public AMIs and Kernels (32bit and 64bit).
Thought I would share a few helpful hints to keep in mind when using EC2 and S3. Nothing mind blowing here, just some things worthy of note to the beginner. All of them born of fire managing Cascading / Hadoop clusters.
Cascading 0.3.0 has just been packaged and is available for download from our downloads page. It incorporates many great changes, read on for more.
"Many of the commonest assumptions, it seems to me, are arbitrary ones: that the new is better than the old, the untried superior to the tried, the complex more advantageous than the simple, the fast quicker than the slow, the big greater than the small, and the world as remodeled by Man the Architect functionally sounder and more agreeable than the world as it was before he changed everything to suit his vogues and his conniptions." -- E.B. White. "Coon Tree". 1956
