Sunday, 20th April, 2008
Amazon to offer persistent storage for EC2
There has been a ongoing request for persistent storage for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic compute cloud). And a good news is that Amazon is working on a major upcoming feature - persistent storage for EC2.The new feature will provide reliable and persistent storage volume for all EC2 instances. The persistent storage volume would act as a raw, unformatted hard drive, which can be formatted and configured based on the needs of the application.
Using Amazon EC2 persistent storage, customers will be able to create volumes ranging from 1GB to 1TB, and will be able to attach multiple volumes to a single instance. Isn't it cool! a much awaited request from every EC2 customer.
Like EC2, persistent storage will also come with its own set of APIs, to create & delete volumes, to create and delete snapshot. Yes EC2 persistent storage will enable you to automatically create snapshots of your volumes.
If you are interested in participating in EC2 persistent storage, sign up here
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