On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM, James Taylor wrote: It currently uses a tiny amount of S3 storage just to save configuration information about your instance. Ok.. never used AWS, actually, I didn't know S3 holds the information. I guess I will have to read some how-to Long term though we plan to move dataset storage over to S3 as well. Mmm... I've just had a chat with an AWS engineer, he told me that every operation on S3-stored data goes through a download/upload process... isn't that a PITA for data analysis? I guess S3 is for "static" data EBS has limits, S3 is more durable and scalable. Which limits (in addition to the 1 Tb size)? I know these are not Galaxy-related questions but you are the best people I can ask :-) d /* Davide Cittaro, PhD Head of Bioinformatics Core Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics San Raffaele Scientific Institute Via Olgettina 58 20132 Milano Italy Office: +39 02 26439140 Mail: cittaro.davide@hsr.it<mailto:cittaro.davide@hsr.it> Skype: daweonline */