New features from Amazon for EC2 service

Today, Amazon announced 2 new features for its EC2 service, namely:

- New region in the states: US-West-1. Servers in California. Prices are the same as for the EU region.

- Ability to specify EBS for the root section. I would like to dwell on this feature.

The ability to place a root partition on EBS gives us the following advantages over using local disks:
1. Now the root partition can be up to 1 TB in size.
2. You can forget about the time-consuming and haemorrhoid process of creating a snapshot system (referred to as a bundle). Now, to make a snapshot of the system, it is enough just to create an API for creating EBS snapshot.
3. Ability to suspend the work of the instance. Previously, we could only run and delete the instance. Now we can pause it (analog Suspend). At the same time, the instance and its ID and settings are saved for the instance and you can always revive it.
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Amazon continues to delight us with new and new features that open up great opportunities for us ...

UPD : moved to the blog Hosting

References:
Announcement: developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/ann.jspa?annID=537
Prices: aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
Manual in English about how to boot from EBS: ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/BootFromEBSGSGGuide.pdf