absolute first thought that popped in my head: holy shit.<p>second thought: the oreilly ec2 book i bought is now double outdated. first it was elastic IP/availability zones, now this.<p>edit: rightscale tested it out first-hand.. here are the thoughts from a developer's POV
<a href="http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/13/amazon-takes-ec2-to-the-next-level-with-persistent-storage-volumes/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/13/amazon-takes-ec2-to-th...</a>
I think this has the potential to be pretty huge. EC2 is becoming almost the ideal disaster recovery environment for us. All it would take is a simple bridge between our internal messaging platform and SQS and there we go.<p>This is an incredibly powerful paradigm even without persistent storage, and now with the addition of persistent storage, serving numerous small files just became much simpler than in the S3-only world.
I wonder how long it takes to back up a running virtual machine of, say, 2gb of ram and 10gb disk? At 1gb ethernet that would be over a minute best case, and the VM image would (presumbly?) have to stall while the copy takes place. So unfortunately running a single machine and doing hourly backups would probably be impossible, which is a shame - that would be amazing.<p>Great news, though!
This makes me think: Now I really want to use this!
Can anyone recommend a way to learn using AWS? Is there a useful book? Do I have to learn Ruby first?