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+# Best Practices
+
+## Compute
+
+* R3
+* R4
+* M4
+
+Placement groups?
+
+### Memory Allocation
+
+Q: We're currently doing 50% for data and 15% for index.  Need a good solution here.
+
+### Fault Tolerance and High Availability
+
+AZ mapping determined by autoscaling group
+
+## Storage
+
+EBS gp2
+
+## Network
+
+Use public IP.  Do we need 10G, balance against complexity of placement groups?
+
+### Security
+
+A number of steps are necessary to secure a Couchbase cluster:
+* Configure authentication for the administrator tool
+* Enable SSL for traffic between nodes
+* Enable authentication for connections to the database as well.