Yesterday Amazon announced some cool new feature on their EC2 platform: Boot your instance from EBS (Amazon Block Store).
Your root partition of your image will be EBS, so this will give you the ability to:
- fine-grain control of software and data configuration
- increase the size of the local disk up to 1TB in size
- boot faster
- stop an instance and restart it at a later time with the disk configuration intact
- restart an instance and choose to use a different instance type (e.g., with more memory or CPU), a different operating system (e.g., with new security patches installed), or add new user data
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I was happy when I learned about RDS, and now this; Christmas has come early this year!