Category Archives: ec2

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

Cool…Here is the latest on the AWS services. The Elastic Block Store.

“You can snapshot a volume to Amazon S3 with ease, and then, if needed, create new volumes (of the same or different sizes) using the snapshot as a base. Of course, if you create a new volume with a size that doesn’t match the size of the volume where you took snapshot, you will have to resize the new file system. When you create a new volume based on an S3 snapshot, the data is loaded lazily; there’s no need to wait for the snapshot to load.”


Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with Elastic Block Store
by Eric Hammond.

To check out this feature easily, I use ElasticFox addon. I need to upgrade it first at http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/elasticfox.xpi

It’s seems a little bit easier to implement some db and ec2 backups using this feature.
Kudos to Amazon guys.

Did I get the scalr running?

Well after some little tweaking on the installation and setup at Amazon EC2. I got the scalr running.
See the pics below for snapshot.

This really makes a good starting point to scale applications. Actually, after I was able to run scalr, there’s lot of ideas entering my mind. Usually ideas of possible applications that I can make using this project.

I admire you guys working at scalr. But for now, let me ponder more ideas on how to use your to solution to manage scalable apps at amazon.

Get this app at http://code.google.com/p/scalr/