On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:57:20PM -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:42:57AM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> On 2011-07-28 8:36, Tim Flink wrote:
> > As I'm learning more about EC2 and AMIs, I'm wondering what the plans
> > are for Fedora S3 backed AMIs.
> >
> > If I'm understanding correctly, an S3 backed AMI has no persistent
> > storage - once the instance is rebooted, all changes are effectively
> > reverted. This would mean that applying updates to an S3 backed AMI
> > would be a questionable process and any updates requiring a reboot
> > would be impossible.
>
> Instance storage of this sort does not go away when instances are merely
> rebooted. It is only destroyed at instance termination time.
>
>From the limited testing I've done using Amazon's Web Console it seems
like typing 'reboot' or 'shutdown -h now' does seem to terminate the
instance. Am I doing it wrong?
Amazon has deprecated S3 backed instances at this point. And yes, they
are non-updateable (without respinning the base image).
--Hugh
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