<i>Edit to add: Adding nodes isn&#x27;t that hard?</i><p>Adding nodes isn&#x27;t hard, but try restoring a mnesia table from service@node1 to service@node2.  You have to do something like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;463400&#x2F;how-to-rename-the-node-running-a-mnesia-database" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;463400&#x2F;how-to-rename-the-...</a><p>It&#x27;s not a great solution for modern AWS-style API-driven-deployment operational models.