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Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features
- justinsb 17y agoAnd so EC2 repents for another one of their design mistakes... finally fixing the problem that storage isn't persistent. Maybe we can look forward to EC2 one day becoming a standard Virtual Private Server environment!
- elliottkember 17y agoThey'll have to lower their prices a bit first!
- jokull 17y ago!
- docmach 17y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974089 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974089 has a direct link to the news at http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-boot-from-elastic-block-store.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/new-amazon-ec2-feature-bo... .
- dmv 17y agoIt is somewhat notable that _this_ entry was written (and submitted) by the CTO of the company in question.
- felixmar 17y agoI don't think it is useful to bring attention to that. Hacker News readers familiar with AWS will recognize the name. A certain amount of pseudo-anonymity may encourage people like him to post more on HN.
- drcode 17y agoCan't believe it took them so long to implement a feature that is so obviously useful.
- rbranson 17y agoPeople have been doing this using the Linux kernel's root pivot functionality. While it might be a bit more copious as you've got to launch the instance, wait for it to come up, then attach the EBS, it's not that much more complicated.