I have been following ‘Eric Hammod’ article on how to setup MySQL so that, it survives EC2 instance termination or restarts. That article is one of best article but it’s too much for my requirements. So I came up with some more simple steps to host MySQL files on EBS volume. Many parts of Eric’s article still applies like how to create EBS volume and how to create snapshot of EBS.

An interesting read.

Open-source software has been on the rise at many businesses during the extended economic downturn, and one of the areas where it is starting to offer companies a lot of flexibility and cost savings is in cloud computing. Cloud deployments can save money, free businesses from vendor lock-ins that could really sting over time, and offer flexible ways to combine public and private applications.

First, lets be clear: this comment is about server virtualization through ghosting - the business of using one OS to run one or more ghost OSes in lieu of applications each of which in turn is able to run one or more applications - it’s not about desktops, not about N1 type technologies, and not about containerization.