Amazon EC2 persistent storage

Apr 15th, 2008 @ 6:16 am CST

EC2 announced future support for adding raw, persistent block devices to VMs, a few non-Amazon people are even testing it already.

  • Ability to create volumes between 1GB and 1TB
  • Ability to create any FS on them after the first mount
  • Mounted from same availability zone as the EC2 instance
  • Snapshots to S3 (awesome)

See Werner Vogels and this RightScale post.

    One Response to “Amazon EC2 persistent storage”

  1. Tim Freeman Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 1:16 am

    See:

    http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dhh4z6n4_96w387mqhn&revision=_latest

    Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage — Using LVM DRBD NFS Heartbeat VTun To Gain Data Persistence, Redundancy, Automatic Fail-Over, and Read/Write Disk Access Across Multiple EC2 Nodes