There’s been a few good AWS discussions recently on the Cassandra User List, and some interesting blog posts.

User List discussions

• best way to backup on EC2 and the SimpleGeo.com table snap
• EC2 Stress Tests with lots of hard numbers
• Multi DC Deployment discussion
• Work on a new EC2 Snitch to make multi region deployments easier using CASSANDRA-2452
• Using Vyatta and IP address resolution in MultiDC setup (EC2)/VIP
• Token selection for a balanced Replica data distributing between racks

Blogs and such

• Setting up a Cassandra cluster with the DataStax AMI
• Installing the Brisk AMI on Amazon EC2
• Amazon documentation on EC2 Instance Storage
• Persistence Strategies for Amazon EC2
• Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region
• RAID0 ephemeral storage on AWS EC2
• Three Latency Anomalies a look at EC2 networking