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Questions tagged [amazon-ebs]

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

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Benefits of moving MySQL to its own SSD on AWS EBS

When using hardware (rather than virtualization), there is a clear benefit in using a 200 GB disk for MySQL and a 200 GB disk for content. But due to the way AWS works, is there actually any potential benefit in using two 200 GB disks on a web…
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AWS Windows EC2 instance: daily EBS snapshot without downtime

I have one "Windows Server 2008" instance on "Amazon AWS EC2" with two "EBS-volumes" attached: D:\, E:\. I want to schedule a daily snapshot of only D:\ "EBS-volume" to "s3 bucket" so that we have daily backups available. it is possible/safe make…
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best practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS (Elastic block store)

This is a consumer app, so I will care about storage costs - I don't want to have 5x copies of data lying about. The app shards very well, so I can use MySQL and not have scaling issues. Amazon EBS has a nice baseline+snapshot backup capability that…
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EBS volume mount point should be disk or partition

With community CentOS 7 HVM image, after adding another EBS volume to my EC2 instance, lsblk command shows this NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk -xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part / xvdb 202:16 0 16G 0…
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crontab fails, cannot find aws executable

I am trying to run a backup script on my ec2 amazon server (ubuntu 14.04), to automatically create a snapshot of amazon ebs volumes. Therefore I am using the aws-missing-tools script:…
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Windows EBS Volume from snapshot at instance launch is OFFLINE

Using Powershell launching a Server 2012 R2 machine. I can launch an instance from the stock Server 2012R2 AMI with a defined new EBS volume for d: drive, and upon boot, is online, and works fine. If I take the same code and just add creation of…
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Monitor AWS EC2 volume capacity

I have a EC2 Ubuntu server instance with a 15GB volume, running a web service. The web service is logging to date-formatted files which are pruned after 7 days. The load on the server is still low, but I'd like to set an alarm if I'm coming close to…
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Is it possible to have a spot instance mount a particular EBS volume as its root disk when started?

For example, in a scenario where you have an auto-scaling group of size 1 that launches a spot instance which continually uses the same root EBS volume.
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Should I always partition a virtual drive?

This might seem like an odd question at first, but I was experimenting with an Amazon EC2 instance and forgot to partition an EBS drive under Linux. I discovered I could directly format it with a filesystem and mount it without it even containing a…
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Server Backup Strategy for Amazon EC2

Where and how should I backup my EC2 / EBS based snapshots OUTSIDE of EC2? EC2 provides a great product with their EBS based snapshots. However it is also a high risk point that someone could obtain our credentials and delete all the snapshots. …
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Creating an AMI from an EC2 instance with mounted volumes

I have an EBS-backed instance with a 2nd mounted volume (I followed the steps in Eric's Article) I then created an AMI from that instance, and ran an instance from that AMI. That 2nd instance then created two volumes. Is there a way to control how…
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Command does not execute in crontab while command itself works just fine

I have this script from Colin Johnson on Github - https://github.com/colinbjohnson/aws-missing-tools/tree/master/ec2-automate-backup It seems great. I have modified it to send email to myself every time an EBS snapshot is created or deleted. The…
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Need a recommendation for shared storage on auto-scaling ec2 w/ scalr

I have come across so many answers to this question that I am completely lost! I am moving our 2 sites to a load balanced ec2 system with scalr as our cloud manager. Now the question is coming up about persistent storage for the user's uploaded…
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Amazon EC2 EBS volume scheduled backup/snapshots using puppet / similar tools

I am not a Linux admin, although I wish I was, and I have seen these questions Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy Amazon EC2 + EBS:: Regular backup plan? Simple Backup Strategy for Amazon EC2 instances / volumes? And this suggestion…
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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 disks.
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