Not the original poster, but here's some stuff I really wish AWS had:
a) Ability to map an elastic IP to an ELB. The CNAME thing it uses now has way too many drawbacks [1].
b) Ability to make an RDS instance a slave to or a master for a normal MySQL instance. This would make it possible to use RDS as a backup to our ordinary DB infrastructure using normal MySQL replication (and eventually, vice versa)
c) Retention periods for EBS snapshots. You can get this yourself by writing a few simple scripts, but it would be really nice if snapshots could simply be labelled "delete after 90 days".
d) A cross-availability zone, synchronously replicated EBS volume. This is probably fairly specific to our use case, but it would be neat if AWS natively provided something like DRBD.
a) Ability to map an elastic IP to an ELB. The CNAME thing it uses now has way too many drawbacks [1].
b) Ability to make an RDS instance a slave to or a master for a normal MySQL instance. This would make it possible to use RDS as a backup to our ordinary DB infrastructure using normal MySQL replication (and eventually, vice versa)
c) Retention periods for EBS snapshots. You can get this yourself by writing a few simple scripts, but it would be really nice if snapshots could simply be labelled "delete after 90 days".
d) A cross-availability zone, synchronously replicated EBS volume. This is probably fairly specific to our use case, but it would be neat if AWS natively provided something like DRBD.
[1] http://blog.pagerduty.com/2010/08/31/load-balancers-need-sta...