Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Primer

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance, block-storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale. You can deploy a broad range of workloads on Amazon EBS, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows.

You can choose from different volume types to balance optimal price and performance. You can change volume types, tune performance, or increase volume size without disrupting your critical applications, so you have cost-effective storage when you need it.

Designed for mission-critical systems, EBS volumes are replicated within an Availability Zone and can easily scale to petabytes of data. Also, you can use Amazon EBS Snapshots with automated lifecycle policies to back up your volumes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), while ensuring geographic protection of your data and business continuity.

• Course level: Intermediate

• Duration: 1.5 hours

Activities

This course includes online materials, demonstrations, exercises, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Explain Amazon EBS features and benefits

• Discuss common and practical use cases for Amazon EBS

• Differentiate between Amazon EBS volume types

• Describe the key Amazon EBS technical options and specifications

• Outline the Amazon EBS pricing structure

• Summarize Amazon EBS relationship with other AWS services

• Explain how to monitor Amazon EBS volumes

• Implement and manage Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects

• Storage architects

• Developers

• Operations engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Completed the Getting Started with AWS Storage course

Course outline

Section 1: Course overview

• How to use this course

• Course overview

Section 2: Introduction to block storage

• What is block storage?

Section 3: Introduction to Amazon EBS

• Amazon EBS overview

• Feature and benefits

• Use cases

Section 4: Types of Amazon EBS storage

• Amazon EBS performance

• Amazon EBS volume types

• Choosing the correct Amazon EBS volume type

• EBS Snapshots

Section 5: Pricing

• Amazon EBS pricing

• Pricing exercise

Section 6: Amazon EBS architecture

• Architecture

Section 7: Integration with other AWS services

• Data security

• AWS Backup

• CloudEndure Disaster Recovery and CloudEndure Migration

• Amazon CloudWatch

Section 8: Knowledge check

• Knowledge check questions

Section 9: Resources and feedback

• Resources

• Feedback