[Cialug] Fwd: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

[Tom Pohl]

On Sep 9, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> EC2 is not like a normal vps though. There is, by default at least, no
> persistent storage. So if you boot it up, install nagios and then shut
> it down, when you boot it up again you'll have to install nagios
> again. You have to deliberately create persistent storage.

By default this is true, but earlier this year they made it possible to store your VM in elastic block storage now! I believe they call it an EBS-backed instance

-Tom