How to persist changes to instances in the cloud.

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Published on 2010-06-04T04:50:12Z Indexed on 2010/06/04 6:10 UTC
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Hi folks,

I must be missing something here, but can someone clue me in on how to persist changes (such as software installs etc) on machines in the cloud (either EC2 or my own Eucalyptus cloud).

I have instances running.. can attach extra disks to them etc., but every time I terminate the instance, all of my changes are lost the next time I run them.

Now, this sort of makes sense in that the instances are virtual, but, there must be some way to make these changes persist. I'm just missing how its done.

Thanks.

Peter.

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