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Amazon EBS is a block storage service that provides volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes behave like hard drives attached to servers, providing persistent and frequently accessed storage. There are different volume types that are suitable for different use cases depending on performance needs and cost.

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Aws Ebs

Amazon EBS is a block storage service that provides volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes behave like hard drives attached to servers, providing persistent and frequently accessed storage. There are different volume types that are suitable for different use cases depending on performance needs and cost.

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What is Amazon EBS ?

Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a block storage service based in the AWS cloud.
EBS stores huge amounts of data in blocks, which work like hard drives
(called volumes). You can use it to store any type of data, including file
systems, transactional data, NoSQL and relational databases, backup
instances, containers, and applications.

After creating an EBS volume, you can attach it to an AWS EC2 instance.
If the EC2 instance stops or is terminated, all the data on the attached EBS
volume remains.
What’san EBS Volume?

• An EBS (Elastic Block Store) Volume is a network drive you can


• attach to your instances while they run
• It allows your instances to persist data, even after their termination
• They can only be mounted to one instance at a time (at the CCP level)
• They are bound to a specific availability zone

• Analogy:Think of them as a “network USB stick”


• Free tier: 30 GB of free EBS storage of type General Purpose ( or
Magnetic per month
EBSVolume

It’s a network drive (i. not a physical drive)


• It uses the network to communicate the instance, which means there might be a
bit of latency
• It can be detached from an EC2 instance and attached to another one quickly

It’s locked to an Availability Zone (AZ)


• An EBS Volume in us east 1a cannot be attached to us east 1b
• To move a volume across, you first need to snapshot it
Have a provisioned capacity (size in GBs, and IOPS)
• You get billed for all the provisioned capacity
• You can increase the capacity of the drive over time
EBS – Delete on Termination attribute

• Controlsthe EBS behaviour when an EC2 instance terminates


• By default, the root EBS volume is deleted (attribute enabled)
• By default, any other attached EBS volume is not deleted (attribute disabled)
• This can be controlled by the AWS console AWS CLI
• Use case: preserve root volume when instance is terminated
Types of AWS Elastic Block Store Volumes
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2)

This is the default EBS Volume provided; it has a well-balanced mixture over price with
performance. For small I/O operations, SSD solid-state drive is much faster than HDD. The
volume size for this ranges over 1GB -16TB. The performance is measured over Input Output
per Second(IOPS); the EBS volume provides a ratio of 3 IOPS per GB.

EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD

This comes as the fastest and most expensive EBS Volume. They are designed for
transactional workloads for intensive applications such as NO SQL Databases. The volume size
for this ranges over 4GB-16TB, and IOPS being to be 100 to 32000 range.
Throughput Optimized HDD(st1)

They are low-cost HDD volumes with defined performance. The main use of these volumes is
over the Hadoop cluster. They are designed for sequential workloads like big data processing,
log processing. The volume size differs from the range of 500GB-16TB. It can’t be a boot
volume, can provision up to 500 IOPS per volume

Cold HDD

They are the most lower-cost HDD volume designed for sequential workloads as file servers.
They are used for colder data requiring fewer scans per day. They can have the same volume
as of Throughput HDD from the range of 500Gb – 16 Tb.
Can provision up to 250 IOPS per volume
SC1 is also backed by hard disk drives HDD and provides the lowest cost per GB of all EBS
volume types.
EBS Encryption

AWS also offers seamless data encryption for EBS Volumes.

When an encrypted EBS Volume is attached to an instance then all the


data, including data on the volume, disk I/O and even the snapshots
created from that encrypted volume, are all encrypted. This feature
eliminates the need to structure and manage a secure key management
infrastructure.

EBS encryption occurs at the servers that host EC2 instances. EBS
encryption offers data security using Amazon managed keys or the keys
that the users create themselves using AWS key management Service
(KMS).
Benefits of AWS EBS
❖ Reliability: To prevent component failures, EBS Volume can automatically respond to its
respective availability Zone.

❖ Secure: There are various access control policies that Amazon provides which can be
used to specify who can access which EBS Volumes.

❖ Flexibility: EBS Volumes can be scaled up and down as required and they support live
configuration changes. Modifications such as volume type, volume size and IOPS
capacity without any service interruptions

❖ Easy Data Backup: Data backup can be easily taken by taking point in time snapshots of
Amazon EBS volumes that are stored redundantly in multiple availability zones. Taking a
snapshot does not depend whether the EBS Volume is connected to any instance or
not.
Properties of Amazon Elastic Block Store

An EBS Volume can only be assigned to a single EC2 instance at a time.


Volumes other than the root volumes can be encrypted but the root volume cannot be
encrypted without using any of their party tools
The root volumes are deleted by default when the EC2 instance is terminated.
The size of an EBS volume can go up to 16 TiB.
The copy of screenshots can be created between AWS regions so as to create volumes in
different regions.
Magnetic Standard

These types of volumes are formerly known as Standard volumes and are a
great fit for ideal workloads like infrequently accessed data like data
backups for recovery, logs storage, and dev & test workloads.

The volume range in size from 1 GB to 1 TB. It supports 100 IOPS on average
with the ability to burst to hundreds of IOPS. This type of volumes suits for
scenarios where the lowest storage cost is important. This type of volumes
cost $0.05 per GB-month of provisioned storage and $0.05 per 1 million I/O
requests.
What are AWS EBS Snapshots?

EBS snapshot is an incremental data backup.


The first backup of a volume backups all the data.
Every next backup copies only a block of data that has changed since the last snapshot.
It saves on storage costs by not duplicating data.
EBS Snapshots Features

• EBS Snapshot Archive


• Move a Snapshot to an ”archive tier” that is 75%
cheaper
• Takes within 24 to 72 hours for restoring the archive

• Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots


• Setup rules to retain deleted snapshots so you can
recover them after an accidental deletion
• Specify retention (from 1 day to 1 year)

• Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)


• Force full initialization of snapshot to have no latency on
the first use

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