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Amazon EBS store vs Instance Store with Termination turned off?
What's the difference between the two? It seems as if using an instance store the root drive is ephemeral and EBS isn't in the event of a termination. But, if you're not terminating does it matter? ...
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Software Implementation of RAID 10 on a Windows Server 2008 running on Amazon EC2
Does anyone know of a software implementation of RAID 10 that will work on a Windows Server 2008? Specifically I'd like to use it on a virtual instance running on Amazon's EC2, connected to EBS ...
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How to Purge old EBS backups?
Anyone knows of a good way to automatically purge old EBS snapshots?
We have a cron script backing up the whole instance from inside, via EC2 API snapshots, but the snapshots tend to accumulate.
I ...
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XFS: no space left on device, (but I have 850GB available!)
I'm using a combination of mdadm, lvm2, and XFS on Amazon EC2.
So far, I've had success running a RAID 5 volume built from a number of EBS volumes. The EBS volumes are attached and used with mdadm to ...
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How to determine actual size of an amazon snapshot?
Amazon EBS snapshots capture changed blocks from a baseline, so snapshots will often be much smaller than the source volume. Billing is based on the actual size, which is nice. However, I cannot find ...
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Is this infrastructure safe for scaling EBS online?
Our application uses EBS to store data. The storage requirement of the application grows rapidly as users signup. We need to do it online so that users don't experience downtime with the application. ...
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Efficient plan for backing up EC2 instance, EBS volumes and RDS DBs
I have an EBS-based EC2 instance (ebs_vol_1) which mounts and extra EBS volume (ebs_vol_2), and DB in RDS.
Is tacking a snapshot of ebs_vol_1 & ebs_vol_2, enough for preventing data-loss? Is ...
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Several errors starting EC2 instance - EBS-backed
A little background: We converted our S3-backed (instance-store) AMI to an EBS-backed AMI recently. The process basically equated to:
Stop the server
Image the filesystem using ec2-bundle-image
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EC2 Instance Store to EBS Can't connect to SSH
I followed every line on this tutorial:
http://webkist.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/creating-an-amazon-ec2-ebs-ami-from-a-running-instance/
to create a EBS instance using a AMI based on a Instance Store ...
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High iowait on Amazon EC2 MySQL instance with EBS volume
We have a MySQL server running on an Amazon EC2 c1.medium instance relying on a single EBS volume using the ext3 filesystem for storage.
This MySQL server is queried ~500/ps by several applications ...
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Build solution for Jenkins with Amazon EC2 - How to keep state between builds
I'm trying to move my build environment to EC2 using Jenkins. I have a lot of source to check out each time, so I want to preserve the source persistently between builds.
This would be easy if ...
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Moving to the cloud for product building and testing of large Java product that uses databases [closed]
I currently build and test a large Java product based on Eclipse an Ubuntu machine using Jenkins (Hudson) and tested on both Ubuntu and Windows, the testing also involves all of the major databases. I ...
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Amazon EC2/EBS - If I share an EBS Snapshot am I charged for others' usage of it?
As the subject says I want to know if I make a snapshot of my EBS public and others use it, do I get charged for that?
Background if anyone is interested:
I have a bioinformatics program I want to ...
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How to programmatically migrate an EC2 EBS AMI to other regions?
Before EBS based AMIs were available, it was possible to use the command ec2-migrate-image in order to migrate AMIs to different regions.
Is there a simple way to do the same for EBS based AMIs? ...
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Moved mySQL to an EBS volume, now innoDB performs very slowly
Hello has anyone had a similar problem to this.. I've set up a new instance on Amazon EC2 for a client. I've also attached a 250GB EBS volume to hold the files and configured mySQL to use the EBS ...
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Amazon EC2 - What's the point of having Instance storage if it is non-permanent and EBS provides a permanent store?
I'm specifically looking at the Standard Large On-Demand instance which has 850 GB of instance storage.
What I really don't understand is why have 850 GB of storage on the instance if that data will ...
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Amazon EC2 instance-reboot on EBS backed instances
I received notification that many of my EC2 instances will be rebooted for scheduled maintenance. They are scheduled for an "instance-reboot," which makes sense because most of my instances are S3 ...
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EC2 chef cookbook EBS RAID
I'm trying to get the Scalarium EBS cookbook (https://github.com/scalarium/cookbooks/tree/master/ebs) to cooperate with various databases. I realize performance mileage varies and accept that.
On a ...
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Amazon EC2 EBS pricing over a month of dynamically allocated space? [closed]
I see http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ which says $0.10 per GB allocated per month. However, if I were to create a 30GB EBS image on day 1, delete it after a day and have 0GB for the rest of the month, how ...
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AWS volume takes forever to attach. How to debug?
I have a 10GB volume attached to my production EC2 instance (It's only 300MB full). In order to do backups, I created a snapshot of it. Then I created a volume from it, which I tried to attach to ...
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Is EBS naturally CPU-hungry?
We have an m1.medium EC2 instance with a small (15G) EBS drive, running both Rails 3 and a PostgreSQL server. We've noticed CPU spikes at odd times, and finally realized that even simple, sustained ...
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Why Can I Not Use m1.small And m1.medium Instances With By EBS Boot Image On Amazon AWS?
I modified a Canonical ubuntu image on a t1.micro sized instance, saved the EBS boot image, and am now trying to re-start it using a slightly larger instance.
The only instances available (for ...
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5.5GB written daily to 1.2GB root volume - 4 times previous levels
Problem:
I recently revamped one of my servers, it was tested prior to use, and functions well, however, a few days ago, I noticed approximately 4 times the usual amount of writes to the root volume. ...
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LAMP server on AWS running out of HD space. Options?
I have a simple LAMP stack on an EBS Ubuntu instance on AWS EC2.
It's been running well for a while now, but I'm now starting to run low on hard disk space.
What are my options?
I've already ...
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Launching AWS Windows instance from snapshots?
I have a Windows-based Amazon EC2 instance with an EBS drive as the root device. Is it possible to launch a copy of this instance without creating an AMI - for instance, from a snapshot of the C: ...
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EC2 - Shared Storage - S3FS or EBS?
Building my web service onto EC2 right now and have a single instance behind a load balancer. I will of course cater for multiple instances.
My initial idea was to run all the instances a dumb ...
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How do I mount an EBS root volume to a windows instance in Amazon EC2
So basically, I created a large windows server for development, and then I created a micro windows server for production. I set up everything how I wanted it on my development server, and then i ...
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How do I clone a running EBS Backed AMI
Basically, I am trying to start an Amazon micro instance, install Java, Tomcat, MySQL and a few other things, then save a snapshot of the instance so that I can start many like it later on.
After ...
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Best practice for storing read-only instance data?
So, i'm currently writing my bachelor thesis and my job is to cloudify a webservice which recommends a soundtrack for images. The main part of the recommendation process is a lookup on a ~40gb index ...
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At what point is EBS usage the bottleneck?
I've got a site hosted on Amazon using a EC2 instance backed by an EBS volume. On the weekends, traffic spikes and I make the instance larger which helps quite a bit -- I'm no longer seeing CPU usage ...
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How to store a 2TB database on amazon EBS? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
MySQL database bigger than 1 TB on Amazon
i'm using MySQL and i already have a 1 TB EBS Volume full to capacity.
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Root file system not grown after replacing with a larger EBS on AWS
I had a 8GB EBS attached to my EC2 Instance
but I was running out of space
what I did on the AWS Management Console:
Create a snapshot of the current EBS (8GB)
Create a new EBS based on the ...
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Large downloads from AWS EC2 are slow
We have an EC2 instance in the Ireland datacenter. Running off this is a website that permits the download of several files whose size ranges from 10MB to 200MB. The site stores the files on EBS.
The ...
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Software RAID10 for later growth
I'm wondering what the best practice is for creating RAID10 in software on Linux with the ability to later grow by adding disks or expanding volumes underneath.
I'm using EBS on Amazon, I want to ...
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Disk/EBS volume that is part of an Raid0 drive suddenly becoming unreadable/unavailable
We have a 4 x 100gig EBS volumes used as dynamic disks in a raid 0 (striped) drive attached to a Windows2008 R2 Datacentre 64bit Amazon EC2 instance.
This all works fine, except we have had 3 ...
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Ec2 micro instance, EBS, I/O and speed. How can I improve performance?
I have a micro instance mounted with an EBS volume. I have to pay per million read/writes to the EBS volume.
But by the very nature of EBS I/O is very slow and consequently services like MySql is ...
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How to set up command-line access with limited permissions to EC2?
I added a user "Snapshotter" to my AWS account (via IAM) with permission just to ebs:CreateSnapshot.
On one of my instances I want to have a script that periodically created a snapshot, but without ...
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netcat not found in Amazon AMI (Centos)
I followed this guide to migrate my amazon image from one zone to another. Everything goes fine, but when i run this command:
netcat -p 9999 -l >/dev/sdf
It shows that the command is not found. ...
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What is the best-practice way to create EC2 instances with EBS volumes that will soon need to be very large?
When launching EC2 instances, it seems most community AMI's come with a 8gb EBS volume attached as the root drive. We will definitely need larger than 8GB as our database size grows. What is the ...
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Creating secure, resilient Rails and mysql servers on EC2
I'm wondering what practices should be used to create secure and resilient Rails and mysql servers on EC2. More specifically, when I say "secure and resilient", I am trying to balance the fact that I ...
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Created an EBS volume from a snapshot, but can't mount it?
fdisk -l shows the volume so it looks like it's attached but when I follow these steps
echo "/dev/xvdg /vol2 xfs noatime 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo mkdir /vol2
sudo mount /vol2
I get the ...
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What kind of EC2 setup do I want?
Okay, I'm more of a coder, and not as familiar when it comes to things like system setup, though I try my best. I'm currently using Slicehost (stats below) to run a personal website that gets an okay ...
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Recovering a crashed EC2 instance that is EBS-backed
I had an EC2 instance which was EBS backed (i.e. boots off an EBS volume). The hardware appears to have crashed. I'm having trouble getting it back, which is frustrating as the whole point of having ...
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Is it possible to run a large Oracle Database (7TB) on Amazon EC2+EBS?
I'm wondering if Amazon EC2+EBS can handle large Oracle databases (7TB to start with). Sounds like EBS can have storage volumes of up to 1TB and I could have many storage volumes attached to the same ...
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How to resolve Client.InvalidManifest: Invalid block device mapping: Invalid virtual name 'ebs0'?
To give a background,
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-02-01/GettingStartedGuide/index.html?creating-an-image.html
Im follwing the above guide from amazon to create a s3 backed AMI from ...
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Copy/move EBS volume from one Region to another
Background of our setup:
We've hosted our web-based application in Amazon EC2 US East (Virginia) Region. Our instance is based on Linux distribution (CentOS) and AMI is S3-backed. 1 EBS volume (400 ...
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increasing amazon root volume size
I have a default amazon ec2 instance with 8GB root volume size. I am running out of space. I have:
Detach the current EBS volume in AWS Management Console (Web).
Create snapshot of this volume.
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Basic EC2 Load Balancing Concepts
I am creating a site that I expect to receive DDoS attacks on occasion.
I have created two EBS AMIs on Amazon EC2. One AMI for a MySQL Database and one for the web host.
I have added an elastic IP ...
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Detaching EBS Volumes (in LVM) take a lot of time
I have an EC2 Instance(EBS Backed-root partition) with EBS volumes configured via LVM.
I have formatted it as ext4 and can mount it to store data etc.
Now i want take a snapshot of the root ...
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Amazon EBS high IO delays
I have heard (mostly on reddit) that EBS seems to not fail but give very high IO delays upto 6 seconds. Is there a way in linux to quickly check the disk IO problems and get a figure?
I am thinking ...
