I completely agree that the AWS descriptions and documentations are written with the style that actual best practices are left as an exercise for the reader. Wi

I completely agree that the AWS descriptions and documentations are written with the style that actual best practices are left as an exercise for the reader. Without much nurturing the community is left to develop solutions like boto-rsync for moving files into S3 and glusterfs to overcome a 1Tb limit on drives. I'm not sure if that is intentional or a side effect of something else but it certainly turns off a lot of newbies for whom it seems overwhelming and a lot of technical folks as it is difficult to get a grasp on exactly what to use and how in AWS.