[Cialug] Fwd: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Tom Pohl <tom at tcpconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Ah, that is cool. EBS is the technology that lets you take snapshots
and it also appears to be the tool you use to create storage for
MySQL. It is $0.10 per GB /month and there is a cost for i/o.

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1663

This gives you a comparable environment to a VPS but I'm not convinced
it's the most cost effective or best way to utilize EC2. I cringe at
unknown or unpredictable costs and the i/o one scares me just a
little.

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