RethinkDB now available on AWS marketplace

> It is possible to mount an EBS volume and have RethinkDB store your data on it, but that setup is not available out of the box.

That's a curious default choice. It's hard for me to imagine why you'd ever want to run RethinkDB on local instance storange, instead of EBS, given that EBS is much more reliable, is easier to back up, can be swapped between instances, etc. (Or is this AMI more for just trying out, not for actual production use?)

Obviously, EBS has its problems, but so does local instance storage.

Also: I remember that way-back-when, RethinkDB was touted as being designed for SSD's from the ground up. Is that still the case? Would running on provisioned-IOPS EBS provide a huge benefit over regular EBS or regular local storage?

I wish I could use everything. I want to use it all. All the new platforms and technologies and even old ones that are still awesome. RethinkDB, mongodb, redis, Firebase, Parse, meteor.js, Postgres, Go, etc etc. Just take all that awesomeness and put it in an app and have it do awesome stuff.

Awesome - good job making it even easier to start!

That's great, but what is the strategy for data persistence?

As I understand it, if you aren't using EBS, unless you snapshot your instances, they are reset to their last snapshot once they are shut down. Doesn't that seem like a huge risk to put your database under?

Are there good strategies for mirroring data onto EBS or running a slave instance or something?

This is such a great feature. I'm really looking forward to using RethinkDB as it matures.

Cool, an easy way to test the clustering features.

Heroku next?