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- Editing a big giant block of JSON to describe our complete stack is pretty nuts. Installing the [JSON Eclipse Editor|http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipsejsonedit/] helps a bit with formatting issues. (Download and drop in eclipse/dropins folder). Do Edit > Format Text in Eclipse.
- You can get the configuration template in JSON format off an existing beanstalk instance using the command line tools as described in AWS forum. Key is the -j flag to get JSON back from AWS.
- Working Synapse and some examples templates from Amazon are checked into SVN under configuration/deployment/amazon