From the course: AWS: High Availability

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Understanding EBS

Understanding EBS - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS: High Availability

Start my 1-month free trial

Understanding EBS

“

- If you have the need to store data on a server, one AWS service offering you may be interested in, is Elastic Block Store, or EBS. Let's examine EBS, and what you need to understand about its availability. EBS is a storage offering that can be directly attached to an EC2 instance. An EBS volume is a chunk of persistent space you can attach to an EC2 instance. While you need to use AWS specific proprietary APIs to make use of S3 object storage, you simply mount an EBS volume. If you are worried about security, volumes can be encrypted. EBS is designed for higher availability than S3, and can be tailored to meet a variety of input and output performance requirements. However, EBS cannot be concurrently mounted to more than one server at a time. As such, if you need a given volume to be mounted to multiple machines simultaneously, EBS doesn't fit that specific use case. Each EBS volume is stored redundantly across…

Contents