Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [amazon-ebs]

This is for questions on Amazon's storage service for its ec2 service.

573 questions
3
votes
3 answers

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 disappear as soon as the instance is shut down…
Buttle Butkus
  • 1,741
  • 8
  • 33
  • 45
3
votes
1 answer

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 regular and spot requests)…
darkAsPitch
  • 1,931
  • 4
  • 25
  • 42
3
votes
1 answer

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 many tries, I eliminated the software installation…
Zed
  • 31
  • 2
3
votes
4 answers

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 advisable way to design our system? The options I see…
Kelvin
  • 131
  • 1
  • 2
3
votes
1 answer

Using amazon EBS for storing your database. and increasing the storage space!

Ok so you storage your database on Amazon EBS, when you want to add additional storage, you will need to 1) take a snapshot, then wait forever for it to take the snapshot 2) create a new larger volume from the snapshot, and again wait forever for…
001
  • 491
  • 1
  • 11
  • 21
3
votes
1 answer

Growing a LVM volume with striping

I'm considering using LVM striping over several EBS volumes. So let's imagine the following case: Volume group DATA is created with 3 physical disks sdf1, sdg1 and sdh1. I create a logical volume "store" inside DATA and enable striping on this, with…
Julien Vehent
  • 3,017
  • 19
  • 26
3
votes
1 answer

Bad to Detach AWS EBS volume before Unmounting?

I've attached a snapshot of another volume to a test Instance on AWS. Both instances run Ubuntu Lucid. I've tried to unmount the test instance but it's claiming that the device is busy. I think this may be due to the fact that I copied the root…
Ben
  • 73
  • 5
3
votes
2 answers

Switching from Amazon EC2 instance-store to EBS Volume

I have an Amazon EC2 instance that is using an instance-store as its root device. It has no EBS volumes attached to it. It has a database and a running web application on it. If I understand correctly this is a bad setup as I would lose all the data…
Adam
  • 225
  • 4
  • 8
3
votes
2 answers

Autoscaling and NFS Server

I have a WebServer say WS-1 and a NFS server say NFS-1 setup on AWS. WS-1 is being managed by an elastic load balancer and also autoscaled. It also has an EBS mounted on /var/www which contains all application code. During autoscaling if another…
Shoaibi
  • 809
  • 1
  • 10
  • 28
3
votes
1 answer

pdflush hanging on Amazon EBS drives when using multi-GB files - any workaround?

When I run gunzip on a 1.7GB file (which generates an 8GB file) on an EBS volume, pdflush freezes after gunzip runs and the CPU hangs indefinitely at 100% IO Wait. Here's the output from 'ps aux | grep pdflush'. Note the D status root 87 0.0 0.0 0 0…
rhh
  • 131
  • 2
3
votes
2 answers

How different is an Amazon EC2 RDS DB Instance different from the normal EC2 Instance?

How different is the Amazons RDS DB Instance different from The normal EC2 Instance other than the fact that RDS DB Instance has a Database server running on it? When an EC2 Instance goes down all the data associated with it also vanishes(when you…
Sudheer
  • 33
  • 4
3
votes
4 answers

Uploading files to EC2 Windows instance

I've created an instance of a Windows Server 2008 AMI at Amazon EC2. I now need to upload some installation files to it. One way to do this would be to activate the FTP server in Windows, set up an account and use that to upload files. Is there a…
nitramk
  • 203
  • 1
  • 3
  • 6
3
votes
2 answers

Auto re-attach EBS volume on start-up?

I'm setting up a database server on EC2, and I need to ensure that an EBS volume is automatically attached and is available before the database service starts up. I'm using SMF so I can test whether a particular filesystem is available before…
Phillip B Oldham
  • 1,026
  • 5
  • 15
  • 24
3
votes
3 answers

AWS - Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application?

Looking for a clarification and guidance on the best practice. Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application? Application server or S3? We will be storing user related images and thumbnails on S3. We will not be using CloudFront…
April
  • 315
  • 7
  • 15
3
votes
1 answer

Can I directly write to AWS EBS raw volume

I want to write data directly to an unmounted raw EBS volume (with no file system) using system calls. 1) Can I can do this via the EC2 instance to which the EBS is connected? 2) Can I provision raw EBS volumes without having an associated EC2…
swami
  • 155
  • 4
1 2 3
…
38 39