It currently uses a tiny amount of S3 storage just to save configuration information about your instance. Long term though we plan to move dataset storage over to S3 as well. EBS has limits, S3 is more durable and scalable. Excerpts from Cittaro Davide's message of 2011-10-28 14:32:42 +0000:
Hi there, I'm in the middle of a decision: should I go into the cloud or not? I'm reading the docs on galaxy wiki, and I see that besides EC2, EBS I need S3 storage. What is that for (meaning: why galaxy needs S3)? @people already using it: how to you send NGS data? I need some feedback! :-)
Thanks
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 */ -- James Taylor, Assistant Professor, Biology / Computer Science, Emory University