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Newbie question: which Amazon storage services can be used to add storage to a VPS ? Storage that would be used like a secondary disk. My VPS provider is asking
by johnchristopher 7y ago
Newbie question: which Amazon storage services can be used to add storage to a VPS ? Storage that would be used like a secondary disk. My VPS provider is asking way too much to my taste ($50 a year for 40Gb disk I think) when comparing with Amazon.
Is it possible at all to mount some amazon storage like I would for a block device ?
- tracker1 7y agoThere are FUSE adapters to mount S3 and similar services... some have various caching options, and ymmv a lot. I would test your latency from your VPS to the various S3, Azure etc locations... May also want to consider Digital Ocean's storage which is API compatible to S3.
- DelightOne 7y ago> May also want to consider Digital Ocean's storage which is API compatible to S3. Don't forget to rclone to second provider though.
- txcwpalpha 7y agoIf you can move your VPS over to Amazon, EBS (Elastic Block Store) is what you are looking for, but it's likely not much cheaper than you're currently paying (EBS is priced at $0.10/month per gb, so $4/mo for 40gb of general purpose). You can mount S3 buckets as a hard disk on a VPS, but that isn't the main use case for S3.
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- kaydub 7y ago$4/mo, not $40/mo
- txcwpalpha 7y agoLol yep, thanks. Fixed. I think I was an order of magnitude off because the parent comment was stating his costs in years. D'oh.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoYou'd have to use EC2 or Storage Gateway (to expose S3 as a pseudo-block device)