That is not correct. EBS provides permanent storage, but even without that, you have instance level consistency, so if you reboot your instance, your stuff will still be there.
You also have monitoring features that make it easy to bring back a service on an another instance. AWS is not built to avoid failures, it's built to be able to deal with them. On Feb 12, 7:32 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > Just keep in mind, if you have an EC2 server, if it goes down ever for > ANY reason you lose ALL of the data on the server. > > Do not rely on Amazon to be a permanent will-be-there-always solution > for the data > > -Thadeus > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not suing any of the advanced features like load balancing. I > > have an Instance with EBS storage. I do not completely understand the > > backup process. I hope that making a snapshot of the storage results > > in data backup. Not clear to me how to recover from one the snapshots. > > > On Feb 12, 10:42 am, villas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 12, 4:01 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > hmmm that costs more money. > > >> Well, people moving to Amazon aren't going there to save any money, > >> that's for sure. The main thing you are paying for is the massive > >> global up-scaling you can instantly turn on. Must have geared up for > >> some big spikes on accessing that lovely new online book :-) D > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "web2py-users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
