Re: Amazon EC2 | Any recent developments

Hi,

I've seen both - some unknown reason for it to die (mostly related to
the underlying hardware having issues). We also see instance failure
from time to time with advanced notice. Just like a regular machine
dies from time to time, so do cloud instances. I'd say it's bit more
common on the cloud, but not by a big margin. I might see it more
because I have hundreds of instances running.

Bye,

Guy.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:46 PM, David Kerr<dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:11:54PM -0700, Just Someone wrote:
> - Hi,
> -
> - I have more than a few Postgres instances on EC2. For reliability I
> - use EBS, and take regular snapshots while also streaming the WAL files
> - to S3. So far, the few times that my machine died, I had no issue with
> - getting it back from EBS or the EBS volume. I also take tar backups
> - every day, and I keep a few days back of tar, snapshots and WAL log
> - files.
> Your machine died? Was it the cloud's fault or something else?
>
> Dave
>

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