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Does stopping then resizing then starting an instance preserve local non-EBS data? Is it like a "portable hibernate image" of the system?

• timrobinson 16y ago
  Stop = power off, so no, only EBS data is kept. When you start the instance again, the OS boots from scratch.
  • lurker19 16y ago
    Ah. A hibernate-to-EBS feature would be nice, so that an idle EC2 instance could be concerted from $/day to $/month when idle, for use cases (like mine) where I have installed a bunch of scripts and data on a single host that I would like to scale up to one big machine for burst jobs, hibernate over the weekend or when I am not running jobs, but otherwise be available for interactive access for script editing.
  • deleted 16y ago
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