Now, this is something I’ve been waiting for. Finally persistent storage on EC2, that means I can now run a complete server environment including databases and whatnot on EC2.

You will be able to create volumes ranging in size from 1 GB to 1 TB, and will be able to attach multiple volumes to a single instance. Volumes are designed for high throughput, low latency access from Amazon EC2, and can be attached to any running EC2 instance where they will show up as a device inside of the instance. This feature will make it even easier to run everything from relational databases to distributed file systems to Hadoop processing clusters using Amazon EC2.

Sweet! It is still in private beta though, I’d love to experiment with. Need to reshuffle plans for the next month.