Re: EC2 Maintenance Reboot

2011-12-08 Thread Peter Sanford
Just rebooting a machine with ephemeral drives is ok (it does an os level reboot). You will also keep the same IP address. If you stop and then start a machine with ephemeral drives you will lose data. See: http://alestic.com/2011/09/ec2-reboot-stop-start On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:43 PM,

Re: EC2 Maintenance Reboot

2011-12-08 Thread Vijay
In addition to the below i would also think of rebooting one at a time, just to be safe... folks in my corp are seeing the reboot fail because of EBS or S3 dependencies while booting the image. Regards, /VJ On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Peter Sanford psanf...@nearbuysystems.comwrote: Just

EC2 Maintenance Reboot

2011-12-07 Thread Stephen McKamey
I just received an email from AWS about rebooting my EC2 instance for maintenance. Thankfully this is just my webhead, but I'm curious have others experienced this with a Cassandra instance? http://aws.amazon.com/maintenance-help/ The details seem to say that if you allow them to do the reboot