Comments on: Controlling an EC2 instance with python http://spazidigitali.com/2009/03/17/controlling-an-ec2-instance-with-python/ Luca Mearelli's Blog Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Michael Halls-Moore http://spazidigitali.com/2009/03/17/controlling-an-ec2-instance-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-139507 Michael Halls-Moore Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:49:09 +0000 http://spazidigitali.com/?p=140#comment-139507 These days EC2 is even better. You can now launch an EBS-backed instance, so that when it is shutdown you retain the volume information. You can take advantage of that in Boto to simply use instance.start() and instance.stop(), without needing to worry about where to put your data. (Although it should always be backed up elsewhere of course!) These days EC2 is even better. You can now launch an EBS-backed instance, so that when it is shutdown you retain the volume information.

You can take advantage of that in Boto to simply use instance.start() and instance.stop(), without needing to worry about where to put your data.

(Although it should always be backed up elsewhere of course!)

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