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## [Automatically mounting instance stores on an AWS AMI](https://blog.quasar.ai/2015/08/13/automatically-mounting-instance-stores-on-an-aws-ami)

 Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 13 Aug 2015

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On Amazon's EC2, using EBS as the backend storage for your application has been the de-facto standard. Using the local storage of an EC2 container is risky: data loss occurs when a container is stopped and it is not replicated by default. As such, people should default to using EBS, which is Amazon's version of a SAN.

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