topic Re: AWS Deployment Recommendation: Storage and Backup Options in VM-Series in the Public Cloud

AWS Deployment Recommendation: Storage and Backup Options

Stewiee — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 16:36:01 GMT

I couldn't find the recommended storage options in AWS:

1. C3 instance comes with ephemeral storage, which will be lost if instance is stopped.

Is it the recommended approach to use instance store? or EBS?

2. Backup in AWS: please share the best practices, can we shcedule recurring export into S3?

Thanks

Re: AWS Deployment Recommendation: Storage and Backup Options

mlue — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:38:28 GMT

The Palo Alto Networks AMIs in AWS are created using EBS-backed storage. This provides persistency for the data stored on the root device and will allow the instance to be powered off without the data being deleted.

Re: AWS Deployment Recommendation: Storage and Backup Options

SalesforceIQ — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 06:16:48 GMT

Don't use anything with ephemeral storage. It is wasted. PAN uses only EBS which I prefer.

Snapshots of EBS volumes are useless. We had to write something to backup the PANs. PAN support and documentation wasn't much help.