Amazon EBS

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What job does it solve?

An EC2 workload needs a durable disk with block-storage semantics.

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Where does it stop?

Many hosts need shared files or the data is better represented as objects.

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Closely related services

• Amazon EC2Resizable virtual machines in AWS with control over the operating system, instance type, storage, and networking.
• Amazon EFSElastic managed NFS file storage that multiple Linux clients can mount.
• Amazon S3Durable object storage for data addressed by bucket and object key rather than as a mounted disk.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
• Lesson 14Choose storage by access pattern and performance
• Lesson 16Match compute size and placement to the bottleneck
• Lesson 36Storage service, access-pattern, and size economics
• Lesson 38Backup, block/file elasticity, and migration economics
• Lesson 39Compute rightsizing, scaling, availability, and load-balancer economics

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