Amazon EC2
I started my new job at Amazon three weeks ago, working on Elastic Compute Cloud.
In order to help learn the product I’ve just moved my blog (and a few other things) over to an EC2 instance. The instance is in the new US West region and is using the new Boot from EBS feature. I’ve also created a large EBS image for backing up files from my Macbook. Both of these EBS images can easily be backed up to S3 via the snapshot feature and, most importantly, it is very easy to restore from a snapshots to a new running instance (so many backup mechanisms handle restore poorly).
Long story short: the stuff I’m going to be working on is pretty neat.
Categories: programming, software, work