The ASUS Eee 1008HA is the latest in the popular line of ‘netbooks’ that are reportedly taking over the world, or at least the consumer electronics portion thereof. We picked one up from Amazon for about $419 as a way to keep in touch during summer travels (because, really, what good is a vacation if you can’t have a daily internet fix), and keep our darling 2-year-old entertained with some pre-recorded digital media during a 5-hour plane trip.
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The cloud is good. The cloud is new. We like cloud.

Now that that’s settled, AWS engineers are well underway in making persistent, durable storage available to EC2 instances. This opens up a whole new world of possiblilty to those of use who have been intrigued by running AMIs, but put off by the fact of having to upload your whole database or file set each time you start one.
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