Comments on: How to Save a Snapshot of your Amazon EC2 Instance

By: Amazon EC2 64Bit CentOS 5.3 Base Public AMI 's | Phil Chen

Amazon EC2 64Bit CentOS 5.3 Base Public AMI 's | Phil Chen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:18:56 +0000

[...] I can understand some of you would like to fire up a base instance and then make modifications and snapshot them into your own custom AMI’s. So I finally found some time to build some and here they [...]

By: binbintriangel

binbintriangel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:39:44 +0000

thanks for your tutorial, really helpful

would like to ask: is bundling the correct kernel modules in to AMI really necessary??

i had a websphere AMI running, took the snapshot as your steps except the kernel module, it still works

note that you do need the same keypair file as the AMI took snapshot before, i tried using different keypair, it doesn’t work

By: Phil Chen

Phil Chen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:44:54 +0000

the0ther, I tend to stay away from making an EC2 instance run MySQL. You might want to try Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

Personally I run my databases still in the data center, not in the cloud. I might change that soon but still haven’t made the leap.

By: Pierrick

Pierrick — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:30:38 +0000

Very nice tutorial. Thanks heaps for this.
Followed it step by step and voila, AMI snapshot saved to S3, registered. And when I launched it: it worked.

By: the0ther

the0ther — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:31:32 +0000

one thing i was wondering if you would answer for me…i am having some troubles now using this new AMI that I’ve created. mind you, I’ve rolled in mysql and some tables and put some data into those tables…

when i try to instantiate the AMI it starts up, but when i visit the public URL, i’m getting slow response times, and important parts of the site (stylesheets & images) seem to go missing.

i wonder if i’m bumping up against that 1.7GB limit i see in the EC2 web interface? Would it be best to maybe look into Simple DB instead of putting my MySQL data into the AMI?

By: Nice use of EC2 and S3 @ Robot Minds of Robot Slaves

Nice use of EC2 and S3 @ Robot Minds of Robot Slaves — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:10:05 +0000

[...] a dev-version of one of the sites I am working on. It is pretty damn slick, so far. I’ve been using these instructions to make custom AMIs at each critical point. So when I got the database working…I ran the scripts to save it off [...]

By: Carl Nelson

Carl Nelson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:19:19 +0000

I just tried again, and it’s 32-bit now. I didn’t change anything…

By: Carl Nelson

Carl Nelson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:17:17 +0000

I followed this guide (thanks!) but when I try to launch an EC2 from it, it only lets me choose a 64-bit instance. What gives? I used 32 bit to create it…

Thanks again, I’ll keep an eye on this while I try to figure out what went wrong