[w_t_payne]

Yeah. Even with this, they still do better than I would. My record: misconfigured air-conditioning unit alarm leading to servers being baked at high temperature over a weekend, leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. I now know to be really careful to set up air conditioning units properly, but what other lessons am I still waiting to learn? The main lesson that I took from this is that I should stick to what I am good at: cutting code & chewing data. :-)

[gfodor]

Yeah this is another important point. Part of the cost of AWS is also a bit of an insurance policy against you physically breaking your servers :)