So I create an instance using one of the Public AMI EBS Ubuntu flavors. I create an EBS volume and attach it to the instance. I format the volume and add an entry to /etc/fstab to mount it on /vol....

I've mounted an additional EBS volume on an instance. I stopped the instance and tried to reboot one day later, and all the data in the mounted volume is gone. Anyone has any idea why this could be...

So, in a simple situation, if there is only one instance, then I can store the data into a EBS volume mounted on that instance. e.g. /mnt/db However, how does it work if I scale and have multiple ...

I understand that AWS snapshots can create incremental backups of EBS volumes. Does AWS automatically handle the incremental part (i.e., storing only what has changed) as long as snapshots ar...

Still reading up on AWS. Amazon Large Instances comes with 850GB local storage. However, i read in case of failover and we want to power up another instance, we can just mount a EBS volume o...

The problem is simple. I need to copy the files from one EBS to Another without passing the files through my local machine. Is this possible? If so how?

I would like to run an Amazon EC2 spot instance as CI server. In order to keep the historical information I would like to keep all the data on separate EBS volume due to the fact the EBS volume of ...

I see that you can convert an instance stored instance to be EBS backed as this question shows. However, I want to do the opposite, take an EBS backed instance and convert it to be Instance Store b...

I have an ebs-backed instance running on EC2. I'm using it to do some computationally intensive text processing on around 16Gb of data which is stored on sdb (i.e. the larger ebs volume associated ...

I'm working on an automated mechanism for our EBS volumes to be backed up on a daily basis. I know quite well the steps to create a new snapshot. Apparently it's all quite simple, you have an EBS...

I've got a 1-Gig EBS Volume mounted to an EC2 instance, I am copying 600MB of binary data from a Local Hard Drive (via RDS Connection) and the copying process windows is showing 10 Hours remaining...

I've been looking at using either Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure to host a new project, and plan on using either Amazon EBS or Microsoft Azure Drives to store the files used to run an ASP.NET websit...

I've been browsing for a week on how to use AWS. I've always been using cpanel (I'm new to web) but someone recommended AWS to me. From the info I pieced together from various websites, I think I'm...

I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device. Now, I would like to attach an EBS volume to that same instance, only that I want it to be the root device. Is that possible? W...

I read all over the Amazon documentations, but I'm still confused or should I say overwhelmed by the different terms. I'm coming from a traditional web hosting environment where the only concept ...

I'm not sure what effect deleting an EC2 snapshot has on the other ones. For example, if I snapshot an EBS volume 4 times and delete the oldest one, can I still do a full restore from the latest on...

I have just installed a fedora linux AMI on amazon EC2, from the amazon collection. I plan to connect it to EBS storage. Assuming I have done nothing more than the most basic steps, no password cha...

I'm trying to get started with Amazon's EC2. I have to choose an image (AMI) to start with. I've settled on using the official Ubuntu AMI, but I have two options for the root store - "instant" or ...

I am running a vanilla Windows install on Amazon EBS volume. The computer takes 10 minutes to boot, which may be understandable as 2 reboots are required. However, taking a snapshot is also a 10-15...

I have a local filesystem image that I want to transfer to an Amazon EBS volume and boot as an EC2 micro instance. The instance should have the EBS volume as it's root filesystem - and I will be bo...

I know that MongoDB can scale vertically. What about if I am running out of disk? I am currently using EC2 with EBS. As you know, I have to assign EBS for a fixed size. What if the MongoDB growth...

What gives best performance for running PostgreSQL on EC2? EBS in RAID? PGData on /mnt? Do you have any preferences or experiences? Main "plus" for running PostgreSQL on EBS is switching from one ...

I found this article explaining how to run MySQL on Amazon EC2. It talks about using XFS as the filesystem and then leveraging EBS snapshots to create backups of the data. Does anyone know if I can...

I like the convenience of taking an AMI snapshot - but ideally I do no want to pay for the volume to be attached to my running instance. Is there a way to save a snapshot instance to S3 and then ...

I would like to boot from an EBS snapshot for convenience but then I would like to detach the volume after launch so I don't have to pay for it. Is this possible?