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Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 .. Well How About That?
By John | April 14, 2008
Imagine an EC2 image that retains all of its data after its been spinning for a month or so. Well it’s currently under development. Amazon has announced on their development forum they are working with a few vendors adding support for persistent storage. This will be a huge enhancement for Amazon AWS.
Here are some highlights:
- Independant persistent storage volumes, for use from EC2 images
- unformatted hard drives or block devices, which may then be formatted and configured
- automatically create snapshots of your volumes and back them up to Amazon S3
- create volumes ranging in size from 1 GB to 1 TB, and will be able to attach multiple volumes to a single instance.
- high throughput, low latency access from Amazon EC2, and can be attached to any running EC2 instance where they will show up as a device inside of the instance.
- run everything from relational databases to distributed file systems to Hadoop processing clusters using Amazon EC2.
- EC2 will be adding several new APIs to support the persistent storage feature. (CreateVolume, DeleteVolume, AttachVolume, DetachVolume, CreateSnapshot, DeleteSnapshot).
Actually, after this feature they only need two more items to be enterprise ready…
- Five nines…
- Get out of Beta
Topics: amazon, aws, cloud computing, ec2, s3 | No Comments »
