Someone should start a webpage where people can post the beneficial things that happened to them as a result of the Amazon "cloudocalypse", just for the contrarians out there. Here's our entry.
We use MongoDB for a good piece of our platform, and have been meaning to swap in a backup of the database as the primary.
Because we had created some large collections a few months back that were subsequently dropped (for which MongoDB doesn't reclaim disk space) we found ourselves in a situation of pretty inefficient disk utilization. We'd recently bumped up to 90% on the database disk volume.
At the same time the backup with the same size volume was running at about 40%.
It was on our list to swap the backup in as the primary, but we hadn't gotten to it yet. Yesterday Amazon decided for us that it was time. And now we have all this free disk space in our database volume.
Thanks Amazon! :^)
