Comments on: Amazon EC2 – A New Chapter Begins

By: Ben Kindle Case

Ben Kindle Case — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:59:00 +0000

This is a great post, am not gonna lie it is a little above my knowledge base of servers. I take it though that amazon have taken this action in preparation for the expansion of the e book store we've seen with the release of the smaller version of the Kindle. Ben - Kindle Case

By: Amazon Blog

Amazon Blog — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:16:33 +0000

The update actually refers to EU-based instances. That is, datacenters in Europe…Finally Amazon has realized that going regional and focusing on the special needs of that location than global is the best shot in recession.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:13:33 +0000

There is no API for that and from the outside it’s really impossible to tell whether something is going on on a server. I meant it’s something that could be added, like an hourly cron job that checks whether anyone is logged in or has logged in in the last hour. You’d only want to check just before a billing hour is up, hence hourly.

By: Ravikanth

Ravikanth — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:35:00 +0000

Never mind.

I think you were most likely referring to Auto-Scaling API from Amazon.

By: Ravikanth

Ravikanth — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:25:10 +0000

well-written blog. Thanks for the post. I had a quick question regarding your comment about “many servers could be set-up to stop by themselves if there has been no activity for a while”. Does Amazon provide any APIs to do this?

By: Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features | Weez.com

Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features | Weez.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:30:38 +0000

[...] the new boot features visit the Amazon EC2 detail page and the posting on the AWS developer blog. RightScale’s perspective is also worth [...]

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:22:48 +0000

Cool, thanks for leaving a link here! Looks like you should exclude a few more directories, like /tmp. Perhaps take a look at the AWS bundling script, it has a list of what to exclude (I haven’t looked at it in a long time). Also, you need a copy of the whole filesystem in /mnt/tmp, which might not fit, so that’s something to beware of. But it’s hard to get all the excludes in at once…

By: Courtney Couch » Archive » Boot from EBS

Courtney Couch » Archive » Boot from EBS — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:05:29 +0000

[...] more on booting from EBS on rightscale or on the AWS [...]

By: Michael Fairchild

Michael Fairchild — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:38:21 +0000

Here is a script which I used to bundle a running s3 based instance to an bootable EBS based ami, http://bit.ly/4Vr3Vg

By: Is anyone innovating the Cloud like Amazon?

Is anyone innovating the Cloud like Amazon? — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:53:14 +0000

[...] at the Rightscale blog there were a couple of additional takes on what boot from EBS provides. For example the ability to [...]

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:57:56 +0000

Whoops, thanks for correcting my mistake. I assume you’ll now post a new entry updated for EBS?

By: Shlomo Swidler

Shlomo Swidler — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:51:08 +0000

Just a small correction: While it is true that my blog explains how to roll your own boot-from-EBS solution, I wrote that article almost 5 months before the AWS feature was released. The features offered by Amazon’s implementation are much richer, including the ability to boot from a snapshot.