This is for questions on Amazon's storage service for its ec2 service.
Questions tagged [amazon-ebs]
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EBS with RAID0 (striping) and restoring snapshots
We have a MySQL database on EC2 and are looking at the disk IO performance there. Currently we have a single EBS volume with XFS and take snapshots for backup. It seems that a lot of people have seen significant performance gains by striping…
grourk
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AWS EBS snapshot consistency
I have a procedure for daily snapshot of EBS without unmount the volume from the EC2 instance. This volume is not the root device and the snapshot is performed without stopping/freezing the filesistem, therefore the file system integrity and the…
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Can't delete AWS snapshot - refers to instance ID that doesn't exist
I have a snapshot in AWS Oregon I can't deleted. When I try it says
Snapshot is in use by AMI ami-d2d83cxx
I've checked every region, I have no instance with that ID. I used to run in the Sydney region, now I use Oregon. I only have one instance…
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auto-attach EBS volume to a Spot instance
I need some persistent storage across spot terminations.
My approach to solve the problem is
Write a startup script that attaches and mounts the persistent volume
Snapshot this state and register a private AMI
Launch Spot instances based of the…
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Launch new EC2 instance with a specified EBS volume attached
I would like to launch an EC2 instance using the python boto library, with a previously created EBS volume attached (in addition to the root volume).
After connecting, I look up the volume by its name tag, and try to create a block device list…
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ec2 instance showing garbled name root ebs duplicate
I'm following the introduction instructions here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EC2_GetStarted.html
When I add an EBS volume, I see something garbled when checking on the EC2 instance:
[ec2-user@ip-10-0-0-32 var]$ lsblk
NAME …
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Amazon EC2 - Not able to find / mount EBS volume partition
I have a linux instance to which a ebs volumne of 20GB has been attached.
The web-console volume page shows:
20 GiB gp2 snap-b3a87xyz in-use i-cd5b9999 (myinstance):/dev/sda1 (attached)
The web-console instance page shows:
Root device type:…
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How to calculate the required EBS PIOPS for our mongo server?
We want to use provisioned IOPS EBS volume on our mongo machines, I'm a bit confused on how to calculate the number of provisioned IOPS to use.
Currently we're getting an average of 25 IOPS (read + write) per volume (we use 4 EBS volumes combined),…
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Can I use MongoDB with Amazon EC2 small instance?
I want to move my MongoDB from a virtual server to amazon web services. I know MongoDB provides a preconfigured AMI, with three provisioned EBS volumes. But this is only available for m1.large instances and higher. But I need only small or medium…
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installing glusterfs on amazon ec2
My drupal website running on Amazon EC2 cloud. My instances use S3 storage for dynamic files.
But I realized that S3 is too slow and it may cause problems.
I want to use glusterfs instead of S3.
To use glusterfs;
Which Linux AMI should I use? (I…
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Upload Files to Amazon AWS
I am new to Amazon AWS and fairly new to Web hosting in general. I previously used Bluehost for web hosting, but my company is switching to AWS. I'm wondering what the best practices are for uploading php, html, and css files. We are constantly…
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why does and EBS volumes mounted in an Ubuntu 12.04 EC2 instance as /dev/sdh1 appear as /dev/xvdh1?
When mounting an EBS volume on ubuntu specified as /dev/sdh1 it actually mounts it at /dev/xvdh1. The aws console still thinks it's mounted at /dev/sdh1 so it took a while to realize that it was actually mounted, just in the wrong place
I ran into…
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How do you map an AWS volume to a Windows EC2 drive letter?
In my Windows EC2 instance I have 3 drive: C, D, and E.
C: 30 GB
D: 1 GB
E: 1 GB
In my AWS console, I have the following volumes:
vol-e0059988 (1 GB)
vol-ec059984 (1 GB)
vol-ea059982 (30 GB)
How do I know which volume my D and E drive are…
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Is possible to convert EBS-backed ami to s3-backed ami
I have an EBS AMI running Windows Server 2008.
Is possible to converter it to a S3 backed ami?
In ElasticFox, the "bundle into an S3 ami" option is grayed out.
If this is possible, how?
If this is not possible, why not?
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AMIs in Amazon EC2
I really like the Amazon EC2 environment, and thought I'll spend a bit of time playing around with various types of public (Windows!) AMI servers. But testing has been a bit, well, questionable. Some of my findings:
It's very difficult to know what…
Jack of Trades