&quot;Nonsense. It&#x27;s very easy to have that kind of setup fail - remove one from the load balancer&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sorry - you&#x27;re already missing the point.<p>There <i>is no load balancer</i>.  There&#x27;s no firewall.  There&#x27;s no services running except for sshd.<p>I guess I should qualify what I mean by &quot;better&quot;, though.  What I mean is, &quot;I know exactly how this will fail and it won&#x27;t be interesting or surprising.  Or take any thought or time to fix.&quot;<p>It will be comprehensible.  &quot;FreeBSD on a basic AWS setup - four EC2 nodes (multiple AZs), and an ELB&quot; is not.  You have no idea (nor do I, nor do probably most folks at Amazon) the different and fascinating ways that will fail.<p>(disclosure:  we use EC2 instances for backup DNS.  We are <i>not</i> anti cloud or anti amazon)