Tag Archives: EBS

Fedora 12 Bootable Root EBS on EC2

By | Published: February 16, 2010
I recently needed to create a clean EC2 AMI using a fairly new linux distro. It has been a while since I've needed to create a new AMI so I also wanted to move away from the older pre-packaged AMI and boot using EBS. After taking a look at what was currently available publicly I [...]
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Automounting Amazon EBS volumes on EC2 instances

By | Published: December 23, 2008
I've been using S3 to store semi-transient information like log files from EC2 nodes in the past but recently decided to give Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) a try instead. I quickly realized a downside to using EBS in that there is no mechanism for auto-attach and mounting volumes when an AMI is launched. This [...]
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