I appreciate the "noob's intro" to dabbling in Cloud hosting. Makes it worth a try.

I've appreciated even more the HN discussions about need for backup of cloud hosting in the light of outages during last year. Viva la paranoia! As my buddies say, "In God we trust. For hosting we backup independently."

Using a CDN like CloudFront and optimizing front-end performance is something that would be useful for all companies that are about to launch and add the "Ask NH: Rate my startup ...." post. . I see lots of sites go "live" that can do some simple things that take only minutes and make a big difference.