March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
604 pages
18h 38m
English
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Data Management in EC2
EC2 instances do not store data in the same way as physical servers. It is vital to understand how data storage works in your instances to manage your data efficiently and keep it as safe as possible.
Storage Locations
Data storage resources are made available to your instances as standard Linux partitions. These partitions are virtual disk drives that exist for the lifetime of your instance. Table 6-3 lists the storage partitions available to EC2 instances of different types.
Table 6-3. EC2 storage partitions by instance type
| Location | Mount Point | Small Instance | Large Instance | Extra-Large Instance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| /dev/sda1 | root (/) | 10 GB | 10 GB | 10 GB |
| /dev/sda2 | /mnt | 150 GB | - | - |
| /dev/sda3 | /swap | 0.9 GB | - | - |
| /dev/sdb | /mnt | - | 420 GB | 420 GB |
| /dev/sdc | - | - | 420 GB | 420 GB |
| /dev/sdd | - | - | - | 420 GB |
| /dev/sde | - | - | - | 420 GB |
Partitions automatically associated with a mount point by EC2
are formatted with the ext3
filesystem. Partitions that are not mounted, such as /dev/sdc for the large and extra-large
instance types, are not preformatted. These partitions are available
for use in a RAID configuration, or you can manually format and mount
them yourself.
The root partition plays a vital role in EC2 instances. When you launch an AMI, the image’s data files are copied from S3 to this partition, mounted as the instance’s root partition, and run as the instance’s boot volume. When your instance starts, the root partition will have the contents originally saved to the AMI. The root volume has a maximum size of 10 GB in all instance types, though ...
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