[zorked]

I think part of the problem is that EBS issues also cause ELB problems, from that I read here on HN. I wouldn't know because we only use us-east for Hadoop.

On the other hand, our Cassandra cluster runs on ephemeral drives and it's way better than EBS even with the guaranteed IOPS thing. Everyone should definitely give this option a try.

[helper]

Yup. ELB is great except it uses EBS. So part of our migration was to move off of ELBs.

[shykes]

Same here, dotCloud originally used ELB and we eventually moved off, which brought immediate and huge gains in latency and overall reliability.

[taligent]

Add inability to access AWS Console as well to the mix.