High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 - Part 1 - IntroLike many, I have been seduced by the power and flexibility of Amazon EC2. Being able to launch new instances at will depending on the load, is almost too good to be true. Amazon has also some drawbacks, availability is not guaranteed and discovery protocols relying on Ethernet broadcast or multicast cannot be used. That means, it is not easy to have a truly highly available solution for MySQL on
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