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The whole instance can disappear at any time, so you can't rely on hardware redundancy. This means you must back up your data off the ephemeral drive in some f
by aaronblohowiak 16y ago
The whole instance can disappear at any time, so you can't rely on hardware redundancy. This means you must back up your data off the ephemeral drive in some fashion already, in which case going for RAID-10 doesn't provide much benefit.
- sobbybutter 16y agoAh, I see. I'm not an EC2 customer, but how often do instances disappear? This seems kind of odd on Amazon's end. What's the reason for instances disappearing?
- wmf 16y agoHardware failure.