The following two presentations are really useful for people just getting started with hosting websites on the Amazon AWS infrastructure.

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Running databases on AWS

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These presentations were from guest speakers, the take home points for me were that Eagle Genomics have security tested AWS hosting and believe it to be secure enough for the kinds of sensitive data they are dealing with and that Servicetick were able to make good use of the data processing facilities