Comments on: Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes

By: Persistent storage coming to Amazon EC2

Persistent storage coming to Amazon EC2 — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:14:55 +0000

[...] Dominion Solutions partner RightScale is ready to roll with support for the new volumes. I talked with Thorsten who told me, “We [...]

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:43:27 +0000

TJH: you can only attach the volume to instances in the same availability zone. We may not have displayed things well enough to make this obvious, sorry for that.

By: TJH

TJH — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:29:49 +0000

1). Congratulation to the entire RightScale team !$!
2). I was able to create volume and snapshot successfully but I was not able to attach my existing server (image).

I click on ‘Add server for boot attachment’ link and got ‘No servers available’ message.

Thanks for your help.

By: chirp.syxyz.net » Blog Archive » cloudy with chance of persistent elasticity

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:00:32 +0000

[...] update: beta-tester Thorsten from RightScale also got enthusiastic. [...]

By: Marcus Cake » Online network building blocks: automatic scaling of web servers, persistent storage and MySQL management

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:42:29 +0000

[...] now offers essential features not previously available – automatic scaling , Manager for MySQL and Persistent Storage. The Amazon Web Services platform empowered the entrepreneur, but advanced technical skills were [...]

By: Babble On » Blog Archive » Babble On EC2

Babble On » Blog Archive » Babble On EC2 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:14:38 +0000

[...] mitigating any problems. If it really bothers you then hang on a few months for Amazon’s new persistent storage volumes, which are probably exactly what you are looking [...]

By: Amazon to offer Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2

Amazon to offer Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:02:33 +0000

[...] Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes [...]

By: Matthew Lanham

Matthew Lanham — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:58:08 +0000

Great article, im looking forward to this feature, i have linked back to this article from my blog…

By: Amazon Web Services links for 2008-04-22 | Elastic Grid Blog

Amazon Web Services links for 2008-04-22 | Elastic Grid Blog — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:21:46 +0000

[...] Persistent storage for EC2: as announced on AWS blog, but also here and here! [...]

By: A few items that clog up my bookmarks | Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts

A few items that clog up my bookmarks | Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:35:25 +0000

[...] And this brings us back to one of my favorite topics, Amazon, who announced a persistent storage feature for EC2. Before I blabber along on how cool that is, just read this from RightScale’s Thorsten vok Eiken. [...]

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Weekly linkdump #122 - max - блог разработчиков — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:51:16 +0000

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By: SB

SB — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:28:46 +0000

Thanks for the excellent report. We’ve been using EC2 for a year and this was great news.

By: amazon block storage — award tour

amazon block storage — award tour — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:03:30 +0000

[...] Frontier. Amazon will be launching mountable volume storage to EC2 soon enough. rightscale has a nice post of why this is [...]

By: TvE

TvE — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:58:28 +0000

Rod, thanks for leaving me a Joyent advertising comment! I like what you offer and think that your service is excellent for many users. Also, if there’s a way to work together we’d love to talk!

Regarding the specifics of your comments, the fundamental difference is on-demand. With AWS I can acquire or drop resources on a whim. At first, being able to just launch a bunch of servers or create 10 volumes from a snapshot “just like that” is a wow-experience and feels like a luxury, but after using this stuff for almost two years I just can’t go back. If you’re familiar with software development, when version control first became widely used it was a revelation to be able to tell a developer who was working on a special feature to “just branch the project and commit your changes to the branch”. Well, now we have gotten used to “just clone the staging system and test your changes there”, where the staging system is really a multi-server set-up and cloning that takes 5 minutes of clicking and editing a few web forms. We do this so routinely now that I can’t go back. Some scientific computing people we’re talking to are drooling over being able to create tens to hundreds of clones of a terabyte volume “just like that” because it allows them to get their job done quicker and better. Looking at Amazon’s storage volumes just feature by feature without considering the on-demand scaling is missing the big picture.

By: Rod Boothby

Rod Boothby — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:24:01 +0000

At Joyent, we already give you access to “real” storage. Each accelerator comes with a dedicated static IP address and a dedicated drive space. Our new accelerators make sure that you have access to all that drive space locally.

You had mentioned that Amazon was not yet disclosing the speed of this new offering. It is likely that developers will experience degraded I/O speeds as multiple users try to run high traffic DBs on the same storage volume. Its a basic issue of physics. You can only run so much through a single storage device.

At Joyent, we have solved this problem by associating large local drives with each Joyent Accelerator.

The other question that has not been covered yet is how much this will cost. Amazon charges extra for bandwidth, extra for static IPs, extra for S3 backup, extra for S3 requests and now, it looks like they are going to charge extra for persistent storage.

BTW, @SearchAllDeals.com , at Joyent, you can mount shared drives across multiple instances.

There is no question about it that RightScale has a tremendous product. But, you guys should consider giving your uses alternatives. Joyent provides just such an alternative.

By: EC2 Loses its Last Limit « Jason Watkins’s Weblog

EC2 Loses its Last Limit « Jason Watkins’s Weblog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:40:20 +0000

[...] chance of losing ~10 minutes of data were the price you had to pay for hosting databases on ec2. But now that’s gone. Once again Amazon focuses on a simple tool that can be used in a variety of ways. The only [...]

By: Service-Oriented Architecture mobile edition

Service-Oriented Architecture mobile edition — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:04:26 +0000

[...] April 14: Amazon just added another new feature, in which persistent storage “volumes” can be added to EC2 implementations. Thanks to [...]

By: - Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions

- Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:35:13 +0000

[...] thus making it a shared drive. What it all means is that AWS/EC2 has gone up a few notches in terms of reliability. This reliability will go a long way towards the company offering service-level agreements to [...]

By: Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions - GigaOM

Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions - GigaOM — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:30:56 +0000

By: TvE

TvE — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:57:45 +0000

SearchAllDeals: thanks for the kind words! Werner’s blog states “As to be expected with a volume abstraction only one instance can have the volume mounted at any given time.” I don’t know that I would agree with the “as to be expected” piece, I would have expected to be able to mount a volume on multiple instances such that I could use a cluster filesystem like GFS to access it, or at least to mount it read-only on multiple instances. Hopefully that’ll be high on Amazon’s list for V2…