EC2

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) makes EC2 persistent storage simple, replacing the complex Duplicity and chroot approach described in an earlier post.

When Amazon S3 went down it took Web 2.0 sites with it, but sites using Duplicity-backed EC2 kept running — why relying on PersistenceFS is a design flaw.

Use Duplicity, chroot, and Amazon S3 to give EC2 instances persistent storage that survives instance restarts — a detailed 12-step guide with scripts included.

A busy week building an Amazon EC2 AMI with persistent storage that behaves like a physical server — a follow-up post with full details was coming soon.