Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!


Morning random thoughts - Amazon S3/EC2 script
New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.

All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.

Morning random thoughts - Amazon S3/EC2 script

zhuanyizhuanyi Member
edited September 2012 in Help

Had this idea during my morning shower but I do not have the scripting knowledge to do it, so if anyone wants to take the task and help the community that would be great.

Basically the idea is, since we can use S3 and EC2 separately, can we use a script that sits on my own LEB and scheduled by cron so that it will create a EC2 instance on the fly (using the API), send the files I would like to backup from my LEB to S3, then shut down/delete the EC2 instance so that I do not have to pay for it?

That way we need a EC2 instance for 5 minutes every time I am backing up my VPS + the amount of space I have to pay for a S3, would that be nice?

Comments

Sign In or Register to comment.