Growing an EBS Volume
One of the great uses of EBS volumes is there persistence, however, there often comes a time when the data outgrows the original size of the volume. It is a fairly easy matter to remedy this, however,...
View ArticleAWS Instances with EBS Root Volumes
While instances backed with EBS-root volumes do cost a bit more than the equivalent instance-store images (there is a cost for I/O), they have certain advantages – persistence and ease of replacement...
View Articleec2-consistent-snapshot on Amazon’s Linux AMI
Update: the complementary article to this one, on Rotating EBS snapshots has now been posted.After the recent failure of EBS volumes on Amazon’s cloud, backup is quite likely something to be...
View ArticleRotating EBS Snapshots: ec2-prune-snapshots
Following the significant disruption of EBS volumes in April, the importance of backups was once again brought to the forefront. Amazon’s method of generating EBS backups is the ‘snapshot’ – a...
View ArticleShrink EBS Root
My EC2 instances are setup to have only the operating system and program files on the root volume, with all other data (logs, mail, etc.) on a second EBS volume. This leads to a very stable root...
View ArticleAdding Swap Space to an EC2 Instance
The t1.micro instance comes with only 602MB of memory. Especially under high load, it is quite easy to deplete the available memory – and since no swap space is enabled by default, this can quickly...
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