1. This is certainly true, but hopefully we can find a good way to combine the benefits of booting from EBS and having a fast root partition, with that of the a

1. This is certainly true, but hopefully we can find a good way to combine the benefits of booting from EBS and having a fast root partition, with that of the agility of Chef/RightScript model, to decrease boot times. 2. You can version server templates to use specific revisions of RightScripts and recipes. In fact, the Chef implementation is built around using a branch or commit SHA1 to specify what versions of the recipes you want to use from your repository. disclaimer: I work for RightScale