amazon-ebs

Loading any of Amazon's listed public data sets (http://aws.amazon.com/datasets) would take a lot of resources and bandwidth. What's the best way to import them into AWS so you start working with them quickly? bardiir You will need to create a new EBS Instance using the Snapshot-ID for the public dataset. That way you won't need to pay for transfer. But be careful, some data sets are only available in one region, most likely denoted by a note similar to this. You should register your EC2 instance in the same region then. These datasets are hosted in the us-east-1 region. If you process these

I have created an amazon EBS volume using my amazon credentials. My customer gave me his customer credentials so that I create for him an EC2 machinge with the disk I created attached, how do I do that? I'm using the web console, if it matters ================== Let me add that when I do create volume in my customer's account and put my snapshot id as snapshot I get "snapshot snap-1xyz1234" does not exist. Need I somehow tell that the snaphsot is another user's flybywire This is possible. Look for "Modifying Snapshot Permissions" in the official docs . The best way may be to start up an EC2

I'm trying to get started with Amazon's EC2. I have to choose an image (AMI) to start with. I've settled on using the official Ubuntu AMI, but I have two options for the root store - "instant" or "ebs". (See this page ). Being new to AWS, I'm not sure I really understand the difference. What do the two options mean, and what are the pros/cons of each? I recommend EBS, but it really depends on your scenario. Our company uses EBS specifically for the following reasons (ripped off from http://LabSlice.com/FAQ at the bottom): "The EBS-backed machines are faster to load, can be stopped and can be

I've created an AMI(EBS AMI) using the Amazon AWS console. That AMI has 2 snapshots attached to it. Now I want to backup that AMI to a S3 bucket. Is this possible? I actually need to do this to be able to then move that AMI to a bucket in a different region and register that AMI for use in that different region. Any clues? Update My initial answer still applies concerning the question as such (see below), however, given you actually need to do this to be able to then move that AMI to [...] a different region , you will be pleased that AWS has just released Cross Region EC2 AMI Copy to address

Amazon provides instance store for EC2 instances. If you use your own AMI, these are not formatted or mounted automatically for you. You need to manually format and mount them. The available devices are listed here and vary based on type of instance. For example an m1.small will have different available instance store devices than c1.xlarge. I'm looking for a script which Detects what the instance type is. Perhaps by using curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-type Formats and mounts all devices which are available for that instance type but have not yet been formatted

I've been looking at using either Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure to host a new project, and plan on using either Amazon EBS or Microsoft Azure Drives to store the files used to run an ASP.NET website. To my knowledge these two technologies are very similar and both provide a virtual hard drive that is backed by cloud storage ( Amazon S3 or Azure Blobs ). With the recent outage of EC2 and EBS (See Post Mortem ) I'd like to know more about how EBS compares to Azure drives. Specifically: I know Azure Drives can be mounted as read/write on a single instance or as read-only on multiple instances. Is