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		sandGorgon on July 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange lost its wallet.dat This. I have to repeatedly tell people that EBS-backed is not persistent. Amazon did everyone a big disservice by calling something -backed when it was actually transient.

cperciva on Aug 1, 2011 [–]

It is persistent until you delete it. What more could you ask for?

sandGorgon on Aug 1, 2011 | [–]

persistent until you terminate the instance. Unlike a EBS volume that you explicitly attach, which persists beyond the termination of the instance you attach it to.

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