proxy / load balancing

[orlin]

How would the cluster be reached? Some people have proxied with Nginx -- often comes recommended. It can also handle authentication if you plan to call Riak from outside the EC2 security group. Here is a recent http://markmail.org/thread/2jwkqf6226iepya3 discussion. I guess specify a separate new (or running) instance to install or configure Nginx on. Saw this recently http://gist.github.com/372206 but maybe you already know what the nodes are?