Hello Bioconductor AMI gurus

Delighted that Bioconductor has an AMI with pre-loaded bells and whistles.
I'm hardly an AWS guru (yet?), and in particular feel like all the dots
aren't connecting in my brain regarding EBS.

So I see that the Bioconductor AMI automatically initiates 1 x 20GiB root
EBS volume, and 3 x 30 GiB extra volumes, correct? What if I don't want
these? Presumably just detaching and deleting them in the AWS management
console is one way to do it? Is this the only (reasonably easy) way?

For the moment I'm just using AWS for CPU-intensive work that I need to
speed up. I have an S3 bucket and am using the omegahat RAmazonS3 library to
access and save data on a semi-permanent basis. Does this seem like a
reasonable tactic? For the moment, the sizes of the data objects in my S3
bucket are manageable.

Perhaps there's a link to an idiots guide on "EBS vs S3" options and
suggestions when using the Bioconductor AMI?

Thanks in advance for any wisdom,
Quin

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