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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