Tag Archives: ec2
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Finally! A quick, easy persistent storage for our EC2 instances… We are pleased to announce the release of a significant new Amazon EC2 feature, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which provides persistent storage for your Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can be programmatically created, attached to Amazon EC2 instances, and if even [...]
EC2 Persistent Storage
This is the main issue I currently have with Amazon’s EC2: the lack of persistent storage. However, according to this press release, “This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, unformatted hard drives or block [...]
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
I’m currently evaluating this service, after using some of the other amazon services such as s3, this looks super sexy in a techy way. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2′s simple [...]