[ec2-beta] Instances show no console output, do not respond?

[Michael Jensen]

Neal McBurnett wrote:
 >> PSS: Can you have persistant instances? it seams my instances
>> dissapear after i shut them down, so if i were to build a server would
>> i just loose everything each time? (wouldnt think thats the case).
> 
> This is a big surprise for most users.  No - you don't get any
> persistence of the disk (or ram of course).  The way to get data
> persistence is to use external storage like Amazon's S3 service,
> or your own networked database.

You actually can use Amazon's Elastic Block Store for persistent storage
http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Aside from the awesome snapshot feature, the disk performance is better
than the "local" disks in EC2 instances.
http://altj.org/content/performance-increase-amazons-ebs-persistent-storage


Michael