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EC2 on EBS: Taming the Amazon
I upgraded my old Debian 4 AMI to Debian 5 yesterday, and switched it from S3 storage to the more permanent (and more easily clone-able!) EBS.
With EBS-backed instances, we can finally have a boot drive that doesn’t go away if the instance gets hosed! There is dancing in my street.
Create a bootable EBS AMI from a running instance is more pro, but Creating an Amazon EC2 EBS AMI from a running instance is more helpful. Take your pick, but do not use dd to copy an active file system. My sshd_config ended up with a bit of syslog in it somehow, what a nightmare.
