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Persistent Storage Boosts Amazon Web Services; Enterprise Ambitions

Posted on April 14, 2008

In an ongoing effort to improve its suite of web services, Amazon said today that it s adding persistent storage features to its EC2 storage service. Why is this important?As the AWS blog explains, up until now you were able to attach 160 GB to 1.7 TB of storage to an EC2 instance. (An instance is essentially the server.) As long as the server was running, the storage remained available. Once you shut it down, the storage disappeared. Applications with a need for persistent storage could store data in Amazon S3 or in Amazon SimpleDB, but they couldn t readily access either ...

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