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Doesn't this increase the time it takes to boot up a new instance, though? Boot, update and apply patches, copy over source & data, start running services...ev

• jedberg 16y ago
  Yes, it does. But you probably aren't starting instances that often, and it only adds a few minutes. If you really need a fast boot, then you can still use an image. However keep in mind, on EC2 at least, that the images are actually downloaded from S3 when you boot, so if you have a huge image, it will take almost as much time.