On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:42:57AM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
On 2011-07-28 8:36, Tim Flink wrote:
> As I'm learning more about EC2 and AMIs, I'm wondering what the plans
> are for Fedora S3 backed AMIs.
>
> If I'm understanding correctly, an S3 backed AMI has no persistent
> storage - once the instance is rebooted, all changes are effectively
> reverted. This would mean that applying updates to an S3 backed AMI
> would be a questionable process and any updates requiring a reboot
> would be impossible.
Instance storage of this sort does not go away when instances are merely
rebooted. It is only destroyed at instance termination time.
From the limited testing I've done using Amazon's Web Console
it seems
like typing 'reboot' or 'shutdown -h now' does seem to
terminate the
instance. Am I doing it wrong?