This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center. Closed 9 years … Read more
I’m following the guide here to making an EBS volume available for use. I use the cmd: lsblk I get the output: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk └─xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part / As the guide states I then check if a file system exists: sudo … Read more
This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center. Closed 9 years … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question If I detatch an EBS volume from an EC2 instance and then attach it to another newly created EC2 instance, … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I have a server which has a low storage problem. What i want is to mount the user ec2-user‘s home … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I am trying to create a system where users can upload their data (audio, text) which can run into around 200 MB per … Read more
According to this link: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/#availabilityanddurability It said: Amazon EBS Snapshot can expect an annual failure rate (AFR) of between 0.1% – 0.5%, where failure refers to a complete loss of the volume. This compares with commodity hard disks that typically fail with an AFR of around 4%, Assume AFR of a commodity disk a 4%, … Read more
Amazon permits you to image a hot volume — one that is online and running. Does this come at a cost to image-speeds though? Will it image the volume substantially faster if you take the instance offline? Answer AMI creation uses EBS snapshots, which are instantaneous, point-in-time snapshots of the volume, so no: imaging a … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I know many people have asked how to sync multiple ec2 instances and it seems the usual answer is to store all the … Read more
I’m working on a project that involves running a lot of spot instances over a short period of time, then terminating the spot reservation and starting the instances with a different AMI. If I reserve 500 spot EBS-backed EC2 instances for a day and they all have 8GB hard drive, am I paying for 500 … Read more
