2 posts tagged “ebs”
We have switched to an EBS deployment to make sure our databases are always backed up and can start a new EC2 instance very quickly from the EBS instance if needed. The first day into the switch, some transactions started performing poorly - from under 1 second to 20 seconds. When we compared the timings from the previous logs almost all transactions had a dip in performance from about double to 20 times.
I did read about this a while back when the challenges using EC2 was how not lose a database in case of a machine failure. Luckily it never happened and forgot all about EBS, the persistent disk for Amazon EC2. We went live with a new customer over the weekend and EBS came up all over again for data backup. Quite simple to use it.