Thursday, January 10, 2013

What is Amazon Local Instance Store volumes (ephemeral drives)?

Local Instance Store volumes (ephemeral drives)

  • temporary block-level storage (persists only during the lifetime of the associated EC2 instance)
  • 160GB to 1.7TB
  • used for scratch volume, RAM disk, continually changing data, buffers, caches, data replicated across a fleet of instances (load balanced pool of web servers)
  • very fast for sequential access
  • data persists across instance reboots, but NOT when EC2 terminates or when going through a failure/restart cycle
  • no charge
  • fixed in size


Anti-Patterns

Persistent storage - use EBS or S3

Database storage - use EBS

Shared Storage - use EBS or S3

Snapshots - EBS

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