Questions tagged [amazon-ebs]

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance.

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Attach a EBS volume with boto

I was trying to add several EBS to an EC2 instance, I use something like that: block_map = BlockDeviceMapping() xvdf = EBSBlockDeviceType() xvdf.delete_on_termination = True xvdf.size = opts.ebs_vol_size block_map['/dev/xvdf'] = xvdf req…
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What's the best way to serve images across an EC2 cluster on AWS?

We want to be able to have a folder that can securely serve images across a cluster of web servers. What's the best way to handle this with Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Amazon S3? Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)? Amazon Cloudfront? EDIT: Answer no…
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AWS Automatic Attach EBS Volume to EC2 Instances behind an Elastic Beanstalk

I am facing an architecture-related problem: I have created a new environment in ElasticBeanstalk and pushed my app there. All good so far. I have set it to auto scale up/down. My app depends on filesystem storage (it creates files and then serves…
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Issue Creating EC2 with Provisioned iops EBS

i am trying to create a AWS EC2 instance with: Redhat 6.5, HVM virtulization, EBS optimized: true, volume Type: Provisioned IOPS, EBS Size: 200 GB, iops: 4000 than add name, Security Group, key and launch instance. it says launching and when i view…
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AWS EC2 instance creation

I have two questions regarding EC2 and EBS. Why do you need to create an EBS volume when creating an AMI ? Why when I create an instance that is c3.2xlarge and comes with 2x80 SSD from my AMI why don't those two 80G SSDs appear in my machine?
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Can the access to two different EBS volumes happen in parallel from same EC2 instance?

If I have an EC2 instance and I connect two (or more) different EBS volumes to it, can the instance read/write to those volumes in parallel? Will it be useful for an SQL Server installation to attach more drives so the DB can read/write in parallel…
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attach EBS volume to EC2 instance

I create a Linux Amazon Instance with default 8G EBS volume. After that, I create a new 20G EBS volume and mount it to /mnt/my-data. When I run $ df -h. It's show: /dev/xvda1 7.9G Mounted on / /dev/xvdf 20G Mounted on /mnt/my-data I am very new…
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Getting connection refused to EC2 by increasing the size of the primary volume

Here is what I do: I choose Launch Instance from my ec2 dashboard I select Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 LTS - 64-bit from the AMI list I choose t1.micro as my instance type I don't change anything on step2 (Configure Instance Details) On step 4, I…
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Amazon Elastic Beanstalk fault recovery

I have a running Amazon Elastic Beanstalk environment. Sometimes it runs into problems and the load balancer kills my ec2 instance and starts a new one. I don't know how to create an "AMI" or template so the load balancer starts a new ec2 instance…
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Switch EBS volume to another instance

I currently have a micro instance backed by an EBS volume. I have nginx and MySQL installed on it. Everything is on the EBS volume. I want to upgrade to a small instance. Both instances are configured to use Ubuntu (12.04.3 LTS and 12.04.1 LTS,…
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Not able to create AWS instance

I have a running micro strategy instance in AWS (Amazon Web Services). I created a snap shot of my running instance, after which I created a AMI using the snap shot. When i tried to create a new instance with the image I was not able to create it. I…
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/mnt/mongo/db not exist even though it was setup and data was present

I am facing a strange error. I had my mongo instance up and running yesterday. The data was in /mnt/mongo/db and I am launching it through AWS. The only activity I did is I stopped the machine for creating an AMI copy, and then restarted. Would this…
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Using the WaitUntil method to check if EBS Storage is deleted

I am using the latest PHP Toolkit provided by Amazon to manipulate my EC2 Instances I use the following code to check if the drive is available or not $this->client->waitUntil('__VolumeStatus', array( 'VolumeIds' => array($volumeId), …
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Are there different type of volume other than EBS volume in aws?

Are there different type of a volume other than EBS volume in aws? I see a term EBS volume but don't seem to recall any other volume mentioned. Also, EBS is just a name for their volume? EBS - volume Hard - disk
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What is AVG I/O request for normal EC2 Instance with web server on Amazon AWS

I have an Amazon Ec2 instance with EBS Volume. Standard EBS Volumes are billed $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests Now I am not able to guess how much is the normal I/O request for normal server. And in the max case how large it can be. How can I get…
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