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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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EBS volume stuck on 'creating' when using Boto API

I'm attempting to create and attach a new EBS volume to an existing instance using Boto. The Boto script is running on the instance itself. The problem is that the status continuously returns 'creating' much of the time. (Frustratingly, not…
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Do Amazon High I/O instance guarantee disk persistence?

The High I/O instance in EC2 uses SSD. How does one run a database on such an instance while guaranteeing persistance of data? From my limited understanding, I'm suppose to use Elastic Block Store (EBS) so that even if the machine goes down the data…
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Make a second, independent copy of an EBS volume's data

I have an EBS volume with a number of snapshots. I would like a second, distinct copy of the EBS volume so I can: restore a snapshot on the duplicate volume continue using the original data on the original volume Note this is distinct from similar…
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what can cause a time gap in data on an amazon ebs partition?

we're admitedly new to the ebs world. having set up a new production couchdb server on amazon ec2+ebs, we ran into an issue where about 7 hours worth of data simply disappeared. to the point where the couchdb logs have a gap in them for that very…
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Should I detach EBS Volume in Root Device after attaching new EBS Volume in Amazon EC2 Instance?

My Amazon EC2 Instance only have 8GB of EBS Volume sda1, this volume is near to full capacity. Then I attach new 21GB EBS Volume sdf to this EC2 Instance. When I use df -h to check this usage, this is what I get: Filesystem Size Used…
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Amazon CloudWatch - monitoring EBS volumes VolumeReadOps, VolumeWriteOps

I am interesting in adding CloudWatch for two specific stats on just a few named EBS volumes. The metrics specifically are VolumeReadOps and VolumeWriteOps. These do not show up by default under the volume graphs. My question is as follows: Is it…
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S3 or EBS for storing data in flat files

I have flat files in which I store data and retrieve it instead of storing to database. This is temporary and may last for couple of months.I was wondering If I should be using EBS or S3. EBS is mainly used for I/O , S3 for content delivery , but S3…
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Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008 + "Instance Status Checks failed"

I have Windows Server 2008 launched on Amazon EC2 Instance. While doing some configuration I changed IP address to the private IP address of Amazon EC2 instance. As soon as I changed IP address, remote connection to the instance got disconnected…
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How to copy files and directories to EBS from a S3 bucket mount with s3fs

I have a S3 bucket mount as a volume in one EC2 instance with S3FS. I've created with PHP a directory structure there with more than 20GB now. By the moment S3FS is exhausting instance memory and uploading is really slow so I want to move all the…
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script to Snapshot mysql db on Amazon EBS

I did search for the relevant questions and still couldnt find any answers in the forum. I am working on a simple script to automate snapshotting mysql db on amazon ebs. My instance is hosted on amazon linux image. The scripts I find online are…
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How to take Amazon Incremental Backup

I'm working on an automated mechanism for our EBS volumes to be backed up on a daily basis. Regarding that can you please tell me how to take backup of snapshots, how to move it to s3 and then how to take incremental back up?
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What is "Attach volume" in Amazon Web services?

Are the terms used in Amazon Web Services Attach volume and Deattach volume used in reference of Amazon Elastic Block Storage; exactly same as Unix/Linux Mount and Unmount a device?
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Receive, Store, pass and delete a “file” using Amazon Webservices

I have installed a Tomcat7 server on Amazon EC2. One of my Servlets receive a "file" as a multipart post. I need to store this files in a directory structure and later the file will be retrived by another servlet and send to a client and deleted…
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How to seed the root device of an EBS backed EC2 instance from snapshot?

As I understood, for an EBS backed EC2 instance, it's root device will be an EBS volume. Now if I want to have the content of the EBS volume to be a snapshot that I took earlier (for the root device of another EBS backed EC2 instance), how can I do…
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Disk stats on Amazon EBS with high iowait

I'm currently trying to diagnose issues with a Postgres database that appears IO bound. The CPU is spending most of it's time in iowait but vmstat -d persistently shows 0 current outstanding ops for all mounted volumes. The volumes in question are…
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