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Sharing Amazon Elastic Block Store among multiple instances

Posted by: Joe Devietti on: April 11, 2009

Editor’s Note: This whole rigmarole is unnecessary now that you can boot from EBS-backed AMIs that can have essentially unbounded size.  But this trick was fun while it lasted! I love Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, and have been using it to run research experiments without having to worry about multiplexing computing resources among other members [...]



  • Joe Devietti: I mostly use the AWS web console, which has a 1-click menu option to create an AMI from a running instance. Just right click on the instance and sele
  • Mike Rooney: Awesome, thanks Joe! Could you elaborate on how EBS-backed AMIs supersedes this? Your approach allows you to point to a Volume, so that you get a snap
  • Joe Devietti: Hi Bernd, Thanks for bringing this up! This is indeed a tricky problem. I responded to your thread on the Adobe forums directly, to keep the conv

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