Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by shykes on Thursday September 09, 2010 @01:47PM (#1676174)

One word of caution: sometimes when an instance becomes unavailable (think network partitioning), all its EBS volumes will become unavailable as well. You can't snapshot, you can't detach. My most frustrating experience on EC2 yet.

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by JeffJenkins on Friday September 10, 2010 @02:13AM (#1678068)

You can force detach using the console tools. I had this problem too

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Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 by shykes on Friday September 10, 2010 @01:44PM (#1679564)

I can remember at least one case where force-detach didn't work either. In that case there is absolutely nothing you can do to access your data.

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