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I avoid EBS because I think it is very complex, hard to do right, and has nasty failure modes if you use it within a UNIX environment (your code basically hangs
by jwr 14y ago
I avoid EBS because I think it is very complex, hard to do right, and has nasty failure modes if you use it within a UNIX environment (your code basically hangs, with no warning).
Now I learned that ELB uses EBS internally. I consider this very bad news, as I inadvertently became dependent on EBS. I intend to stop using ELB.
- oijaf888 14y agoHow do you do databases? Just keep everything in instance storage and backup to S3 frequently and accept that there's possible dataloss in between backup times?
- jwr 14y agoI don't do databases, for the most part. I am lucky enough to have an application that can do with very little transactional state, which we keep in redis (using instance storage), replicated to another instance and backed up to S3.