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m3.medium only has 4GB of storage? Is that a typo? Why not the standard 8GB? That'll make it unusable for my AMIs. The m3.medium is $0.113/hr for 3 ECU and 3.7
by aioprisan 13y ago
m3.medium only has 4GB of storage? Is that a typo? Why not the standard 8GB?
That'll make it unusable for my AMIs. The m3.medium is $0.113/hr for 3 ECU and 3.75 GB RAM, while the m3.large is $0.225/hr for 6.5 ECUs and 7.5 GB RAM but 32 GB of SSD storage.
- jeffbarr 13y agoThat's the correct number. The complete list of instance types and sizes lives as http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
- helper 13y agoIs that the size of the root volume?
- helper 13y agoAfter spinning up an instance-store m3.medium, the 4GB volume is in addition to the root volume.
- jmelloy 13y agoThey have a concept of an "ephemeral" volume, which is a disk mounted on the same rack. It goes away every time you reboot, but is useful for caching or file transfers, because it's the fastest disk you have access to. In day to day usage it's not actually that important. You can have as much EBS/SAN data as you're willing to pay for, so everything important gets stored on that.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoJeff, When are the m3.medium and m3.large instances going to be available for use in Elastic Beanstalk in USEAST1?
- ak217 13y agoAs with all instance types, what you see in the Instance Storage column is the ephemeral storage available to you as /dev/xvdb, etc. The root volume remains the same at 7 GB, and for this instance type it must be EBS-backed.
- helper 13y agoAccording to the aws blog[1] you can now launch these instances from s3-backed AMIs. Its not clear if this still uses an ebs volume or if it can now use an instance volume. [1]: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2014/01/aws-update-new-m3-features-reduced-ebs-prices-reduced-s3-prices.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2014/01/aws-update-new-m3-feature...