> a bigger problem is data affinity For future, please write about how typical cloud customers can design for better data affinity. Or is it just handled by t

> a bigger problem is data affinity For future, please write about how typical cloud customers can design for better data affinity. Or is it just handled by the provider? FWIW, at a prev gig, knowing nothing about nothing, I finally persuaded our team to colocate a Redis process on each of our EC2 instances (along side the http servers). Quick & dirty solution to meet our PHBs silly P99 requirements (for a bog standard ecommerce site). Apologies for belated, noob question.