[pegmanm]

I am not sure I understand the issue here. Sure, the AWS ELS offering is lacking and the issues re DNS are known. But just like any of their other offerings why try and shoe horn the product into your requirements. ?

Our service required a load balanced service and just like you we identified the issues and decided we could not live with the limitations.

So we brought up a small instance and run HAProxy on it to do all our load balancing. We assign an Elastic IP and we get to retain control, avoid the DNS issues, do https etc.

Essentially avoiding all the limitations of the Amazon offering.

AWS themselves use HaProxy for Elastic Load balancing and its solid.