Others mostly answered your question, but if you like to run MySQL on Elastic Block Store (EBS), you should read the following article: http://developer.amazon

Others mostly answered your question, but if you like to run MySQL on Elastic Block Store (EBS), you should read the following article: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1663 http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex... If you take the approach described in the above article, you should think about creating a symbolic link to your EBS volume instead of changing MySQL configuration file.