Monthly Archives: August 2008

Why Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Matters

On the technical side, Amazon’s EBS service may look like “just” another great new feature of the Elastic Compute Cloud, but on the business side it enables a whole slew of new customers. I won’t pretend that I understand all … Continue reading

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Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained

Now that Amazon’s Elastic Block Store is live I thought it’d be helpful to explain all the ins and outs as well as how to use them. The official information about EBS is found on the AWS site, I’ve written … Continue reading

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