[galaxy-dev] Some questions about cloudman

2011-10-28 Thread Cittaro Davide
Hi there, I'm in the middle of a decision: should I go into the cloud or not? I'm reading the docs on galaxy wiki, and I see that besides EC2, EBS I need S3 storage. What is that for (meaning: why galaxy needs S3)? @people already using it: how to you send NGS data? I need some feedback! :-)

Re: [galaxy-dev] Some questions about cloudman

2011-10-28 Thread James Taylor
It currently uses a tiny amount of S3 storage just to save configuration information about your instance. Long term though we plan to move dataset storage over to S3 as well. EBS has limits, S3 is more durable and scalable. Excerpts from Cittaro Davide's message of 2011-10-28 14:32:42 +: Hi

Re: [galaxy-dev] Some questions about cloudman

2011-10-28 Thread Cittaro Davide
On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM, James Taylor wrote: It currently uses a tiny amount of S3 storage just to save configuration information about your instance. Ok.. never used AWS, actually, I didn't know S3 holds the information. I guess I will have to read some how-to Long term though we plan

Re: [galaxy-dev] Some questions about cloudman

2011-10-28 Thread Enis Afgan
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Cittaro Davide cittaro.dav...@hsr.itwrote: On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM, James Taylor wrote: It currently uses a tiny amount of S3 storage just to save configuration information about your instance. Ok.. never used AWS, actually, I didn't know S3 holds the