We are happy to announce our new release of Cloud Studio with full support of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).
Screenshot of EBS Volumes view:
Now Studio is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Click here to open "Running Amazon Elastic Block Store in Cloud Studio" screencast in a new window. Download the Studio itself from our download page. We are also open to supporting you in incorporating EBS into your projects.
Since Elastic Block Store feature is not widely known to general public yet, we would like to quote Amazon’s own description of it:
“This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes, for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These (EBS) volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, unformatted hard drives or block devices, which may then be formatted and configured based on the needs of your application. The volumes will be significantly more durable than the local disks within an Amazon EC2 instance. Additionally, our persistent storage feature will enable you to automatically create snapshots of your volumes and back them up to Amazon S3 for even greater reliability.
You will be able to create volumes ranging in size from 1GB to 1TB, and will be able to attach multiple volumes to a single instance. Volumes are designed for high throughput, low latency access from Amazon EC2, and can be attached to any running EC2 instance where they will show up as a device inside of the instance. This feature will make it even easier to run everything from relational databases to distributed file systems to Hadoop processing clusters using Amazon EC2”.
At Cloud Services we have used this feature and already see numerous scenarios where Elastic Block Store might help users to expand the magnitude of their cloud-based solutions. Just to list a few obvious ones: hosting a database, replicating your volumes to be used by many instances (implementation of snapshots makes the job literally “a snap”), seamlessly moving volumes between the instances.
We would like to hear your comments and questions at studio@service-cloud.com.
Our special thanks are going to David Kavanagh for providing Typica ahead of time.