{"id":1171,"date":"2015-11-09T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T01:01:40","slug":"aws-longer-ec2-instance-ids-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/aws-longer-ec2-instance-ids-done\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Longer EC2 Instance Ids, done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AWS?src=hash\">#AWS<\/a> Heads Up &#8211; Longer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EC2?src=hash\">#EC2<\/a> and EBS Resource IDs Coming Next Year &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yKX8sQ9chT\">https:\/\/t.co\/yKX8sQ9chT<\/a> (check your code &amp; schemas now)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Barr (@jeffbarr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffbarr\/status\/662008633295634432\">November 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Inconceivable!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We need to do this given how fast AWS is continuing to grow; we will start to run low on IDs for certain EC2 and EBS resources within a year or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is amazing to see how fast the transformation and growth is happening from datacenter to cloud. \u00a0This change is not much of a technical challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new IDs will be the same format as existing IDs, but longer. The current ID format is a resource identifier followed by an 8-character string, and the new format will be the same resource identifier followed by a 17-character string.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have already made the change to support the longer instance ids and look forward to the seamless change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#AWS Heads Up &#8211; Longer #EC2 and EBS Resource IDs Coming Next Year &#8211; https:\/\/t.co\/yKX8sQ9chT (check your code &amp; schemas now) &mdash; Jeff Barr (@jeffbarr) November 4, 2015 Inconceivable! We need to do this given how fast AWS is continuing to grow; we will start to run low on IDs for certain EC2 and EBS resources within a year or so. It is amazing to see how fast the transformation and growth is happening from datacenter<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/aws-longer-ec2-instance-ids-done\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-richardfriedman","4":"post-1171","6":"format-standard","7":"category-blog"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AWS Longer EC2 Instance Ids, done! - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/aws-longer-ec2-instance-ids-done\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AWS Longer EC2 Instance Ids, done! - RedLine13\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"#AWS Heads Up &#8211; Longer #EC2 and EBS Resource IDs Coming Next Year &#8211; https:\/\/t.co\/yKX8sQ9chT (check your code &amp; schemas now) &mdash; Jeff Barr (@jeffbarr) November 4, 2015 Inconceivable! 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