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Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage

Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage. Using LVM + DRBD + NFS + Heartbeat + VTun To Gain Data Persistence, Redundancy, Automatic Fail-Over, and Read/Write Disk Access Across Multiple EC2 Nodes.

Amazon Web Services lower costs

Amazon have started to do a lot things right lately. The 24×7 premium support, introducing the Service Health Dashboard, the latest improvements to EC2, and now lowering the data transfer costs: Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008) $0.100 per GB – data transfer in $0.180 per GB – first 10 TB / month [...]