Comments on: Amazon Boosts Storage Features In EC2

By: ecards

ecards — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:45:14 +0000

Microsoft really needs to get it’s services up to speed in this space.

With Linux and Windows both having large and healthy market share in the web app space, hosted services is one of the fronts where one camp cannot afford to be this far behind the other.

By: SpinDoctor

SpinDoctor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:52:39 +0000

Thorsten, CTO from RightScale, seems to get good compliments on his blogs. He has a good post on EBS.
http://blog.rightscale.com/

By: Jingho

Jingho — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:39:10 +0000

Jing jing jing…. watcha gonna do

By: David

David — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:55:23 +0000

This is great news for the EC2 platform! Having a familiar way to access persistent storage will open EC2 up to a wider audience and hopefully spawn more innovation around it.

@ Anurag, one of the best ways to get your feet wet is check out the getting started guide.

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:01:02 +0000

Having the big missing piece of Amazon EC2 in place now, we can start enjoying the full greatness of AWS even though EBS seems a bit pricey taking I/O op-based pricing in consideration. Why did they choose the op-based vs transfer-based model?

By: Michael Sitarzewski

Michael Sitarzewski — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:33:03 +0000

Funny, I completely ignored this news this morning as I read “book” too. Weird. Maybe it is time to have another look at EC2. I got HyperSites running on it and from fresh instance to accepting requests was about 20 seconds. Not bad… but EBS will make that a reasonable number.

By: Eric Herboso

Eric Herboso — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:33:55 +0000

Wait — you read it as ‘elastic book store’ at first, too? Good to know I’m not the only one who rarely sees ‘block’ and ’store’ put next to each other like that.

By: Amazon Adds Persistent Storage to EC2 | insideHPC

Amazon Adds Persistent Storage to EC2 | insideHPC — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:11:50 +0000

[...] For more info, read the full article here. [...]

By: Anurag Singhal

Anurag Singhal — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:32:53 +0000

I had tried EC2 sometime back but this was the exact issue that held me back. Time to give EC2 another try now that we have persistent storage!

If someone has written useful quick start blogs or guides, I would be keen to hear about it.