This is where things like Chaos Monkey really come in handy. If you want to run EBS or ELB, I suggest randomly breaking things, until your architecture is resi

This is where things like Chaos Monkey really come in handy. If you want to run EBS or ELB, I suggest randomly breaking things, until your architecture is resilient. This is one reason I like Linode. They don't offer EBS, so you don't design it into your system. Also, they are just a really great company to do business with.