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For the record, there has never been anything stopping you from spinning up an NFS EC2 that all of your other EC2s can use.
by nkozyra 12y ago
For the record, there has never been anything stopping you from spinning up an NFS EC2 that all of your other EC2s can use.
- jdub 12y agoExcept that your one EC2 instance is a single point of failure, from instance through host through availability zone, and that providing reliable, multi-node NFS is hard (even with GlusterFS). And you have to resize your block devices to store more stuff. And... And... :-)
- nkozyra 12y agoWell, this is a problem with a lot of ephemeral services hand-spun on AWS. There are also ways of mitigating it on your instances, but those are clunky, too. Which is why new services like these are always preferable.
- netcraft 12y agoThis may be a problem for this new service as well, but with windows isn't there a problem getting a network drive to mount without a user physically logging into the machine?