Comments on: Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions

By: Storage Startups Turn Cache Into Cash - GigaOM

Storage Startups Turn Cache Into Cash - GigaOM — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:40:52 +0000

[...] “Virtualization and the amount of data has been the biggest thing in the last 18-24 months for storage, but the next thing is a move toward cloud storage,” says Gretsch. “Cloud computing will require cloud storage, and [Amazon's] S3 has some limits to it.” [...]

By: Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 - GigaOM

Amazon Launches Persistent Storage for EC2 - GigaOM — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:35 +0000

[...] that can be used in tandem with applications using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon first started talking about this back in April, sharing some details about the service. (More about their road [...]

By: RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud - GigaOM

RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud - GigaOM — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:01:25 +0000

[...] on Amazon’s cloud offerings, but CEO Michael Crandell expects the recent additions of persistent storage and some basic support will only help RightScale’s business, as it makes it more [...]

By: Links List 4.18.08 | IT's About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog

Links List 4.18.08 | IT's About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:26:41 +0000

[...] GigaOm notes that Amazon has increased its web services and storage features, which could positively impact its reliability and decrease downtime. [...]

By: The Cloud Grows Up - GigaOM

The Cloud Grows Up - GigaOM — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:50:14 +0000

[...] Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Queue Services products. Amazon, with its launch last week of persistent storage, was clearly wooing enterprise users, and the offer to provide support signals a formal [...]

By: Google and Salesforce.com: Spinning a better tomorrow « Life in the San Francisco Startup Lane

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:01:06 +0000

[...] providers. Or in Valleyspeak: “this is a validation of the Web OS.” Amazon.com is right there too, as may be others, but Amazon.com also has a much more diversified revenue base as of [...]

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:34:35 +0000

@ Thorsten and other,

Sorry for the multiple instance error. I might have let the imagination get the better of me. Fixing the problem right now.

By: TvE

TvE — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:10 +0000

The storage volumes can only be attached to a single instance at a time for now. However, using the snapshots, one can replicate the data extremely rapidly and mount the copies on many, many instances. No, that’s not read-write sharing across many servers, but doing that is tricky even with all the hardware in the world…

MichaelMD: we’ve been actually using EC2 and S3 in production for a year and a half now and there is no way I’d go back to a traditional colo or hosting service. Having tested the new storage volumes I have to say that they’ve implemented the important features of SANs. Not all, but the ones that really make a difference and allow us and our customers to build more reliable and more scalable deployments in AWS. If you have your own SAN you might have more features, but you won’t have even close the flexibility of what Amazon offers, and you’d be out a lot more change!

Thorsten - CTO RightScale - (link)

By: Michael MD

Michael MD — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:41:01 +0000

While the cloud storage options such as this can only try to 'simulate' true storage, they never can achieve real storage feel that you get with your own dedicated cloud storage. The limitation discussed in this post is just one of the limitations of S3 and EC2. Author needs to discuss this with real users of S3 and EC2 to get a real feel.

For real storage and backup options, try IBackup.

By: petrilli

petrilli — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:17:25 +0000

I believe that the volumes can not be shared concurrently. While they can be disconnected and then reconnected to a separate instance, they can not be connected to two instances as the same time. Therefore it’s not a “shared drive” but a “portable drive”.