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 -- == Hugh Brock, hbrock@xxxxxxxxxx == == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU == == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. == == http://aeolusproject.org == "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
