JamesBranam's Blog
Tuesday May 26, 2009
AWS Experience Part 5: Saving Money with EBS Snapshots
Hi all,
After playing around with Amazon Web Services for a couple of weeks now, and after racking up considerable charges to my account, I decided to look into ways of avoiding these charges. Using a snapshot is good way to do this.
A typical scenario is to launch an AMI, attach an EBS volume, and off you go. You store your data to the EBS volume. However, when you terminate your AMI, you lose your data. Here is a way around this:
- Create a snapshot of your volume before you delete it.
- Terminate your AMI and delete your EBS volume.
- Go to the EBS Snapshots panel of the AWS Management Console. Right-click the snapshot and choose Create Volume from Snapshot.
- Then attach the new EBS volume to you new AMI, with data intact!
Cheers!
--James
Posted at 08:26PM May 26, 2009 by branajam in Sun |