EC2 announced future support for adding raw, persistent block devices to VMs, a few non-Amazon people are even testing it already.
- Ability to create volumes between 1GB and 1TB
- Ability to create any FS on them after the first mount
- Mounted from same availability zone as the EC2 instance
- Snapshots to S3 (awesome)
See Werner Vogels and this RightScale post.
One Response to “Amazon EC2 persistent storage”
May 13th, 2008 at 1:16 am
See:
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dhh4z6n4_96w387mqhn&revision=_latest
Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage — Using LVM DRBD NFS Heartbeat VTun To Gain Data Persistence, Redundancy, Automatic Fail-Over, and Read/Write Disk Access Across Multiple EC2 Nodes