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by thethimble 4277 days ago
Totally agree. In practice, we've found that running bootstrap scripts on fresh instances is a major pain point. When an instance is spun up as a result of a load spike, you need it up ASAP so waiting for bootstrapping to finish sucks. It's really a tradeoff between flexibility (configuration in code) vs spin up speed (configuration baked in AMI).