Comments on: Amazon EC2: 1st Impressions Mounting S3 http://www.cantinaconsulting.com/2007/12/08/amazon-ec2-first-impressions-mounting-s3/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:59:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: adam http://www.cantinaconsulting.com/2007/12/08/amazon-ec2-first-impressions-mounting-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-1377 adam Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:31:45 +0000 http://www.cantinaconsulting.com/2007/12/08/amazon-ec2-first-impressions-mounting-s3/#comment-1377 I haven't returned to this issue in a while, as Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes on Amazon EC2 have provided better functionality than mounting S3 directly (and presumably better performance). Plus with EBS you can cut snapshots as much as you'd like to save checkpoints of filesystem state onto S3. http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ I haven’t returned to this issue in a while, as Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes on Amazon EC2 have provided better functionality than mounting S3 directly (and presumably better performance). Plus with EBS you can cut snapshots as much as you’d like to save checkpoints of filesystem state onto S3.

http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/

]]> By: Jonathan Puddle http://www.cantinaconsulting.com/2007/12/08/amazon-ec2-first-impressions-mounting-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-1376 Jonathan Puddle Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:10:46 +0000 http://www.cantinaconsulting.com/2007/12/08/amazon-ec2-first-impressions-mounting-s3/#comment-1376 So, how did this work out for you? I'm interesting in pursuing something similar. So, how did this work out for you? I’m interesting in pursuing something similar.

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