What gives best performance for running PostgreSQL on EC2? EBS in RAID? PGData on /mnt? Do you have any preferences or experiences? Main "plus" for running pgsql on EBS is switching from one to another instances. Can this be the reason to be slower that /mnt partition? PS. im running postgresql 8.4 with datas/size about 50G, amazon ec2...
I have postgres database running on Amazon EC2 instance. I have few tablespaces created for some monthly tables, such that each table is on individual tablespace. To get the maximum performance, I have created each tablespace on individual amazon ebs volume. I want to move some of this tables to different instance and database. I will e...
I'm unclear as to what benefits I get from EBS vs. instance-store for my instances on Amazon EC2. If anything, it seems that EBS is way more useful (stop, start, persist + better speed) at relatively little difference in cost...? Also, is there any metric as to whether more people are using EBS now that it's available, considering it is ...
Does the amazon-product-advertsing-api gem work with rails 3? ...
I have a local filesystem image that I want to transfer to an Amazon EBS volume and boot as an EC2 micro instance. The instance should have the EBS volume as it's root filesystem - and I will be booting the instance with the Amazon PV-GRUB "kernels". I have used ec2-bundle-image to create a bundle from the image, and I have used ec2-upl...
I'm trying to setup and configure some AMIs on Amazon EC2 for some batch processing work we need to undertake. Having played around, I know that the default Windows Server AMIs with EBS backed storage are 30GB. However, I'd like to have the initial volume at 150GB. I've read around numerous articles (including this one), but it's not wor...
Once you run out of space, is there easier way to increase the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage? ...
I have seen advice to 'warm up' EC2 to overcome a first write penalty:- Warm up data partitions - There is one drawback to using disk IO in EC2: a “first write” performance hit when initially writing to new partitions. To avoid this penalty, you can “warm up” the partition by executing a sort of throw-away command that ac...
Hi there, Are there any "good", clean, reliable and trustworthy "out-of-the-box" Amazon EC2 AMI images for CentOS that uses EBS storage by default (instead of instance storage)? The RightScale AMIs seem pretty popular but they are only with instance storage. I can't find any information or "Top AMIs" lists.. Thanks a lot in advance. ...