AWS Quick Labs - Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) are used as the storage volumes for the AWS instances. EBS volumes are easily resizable according to the user needs. They offer low-latency and consistency to manage the workload. 

This blog covers how to create an EBS volume, adding the volume to the instance and snapshotting the EBS volume. 

 Creating an EBS Volume 

1) Navigate to EC2 in Services then click on Volumes from the left navigation pane. There is already  a volume existing, for already installed the server in AWS. We have to take not of the availability zone, which has to be in the same zone for the instances for low-latency.

2) Click Create Volume button, then select size as 1 GB, use the availability zone as previously noted. Then click the create button to create the volume.

 Attach the EBS Volume to Instance 

1) When the status of the volume turns to available, select the volume and navigate to action button then select attach volume. 

2) Select the instance field and select the instance, which is already installed in the lab. 

Snapshotting EBS volume 

Creating a snapshot of the volume means it will replicate the data, it also allows to change the properties of the volume. 

1) Right click on the volume and select create  a screenshot, check the volume name to match the current volume, then give a description for the volume and click on create button.  

2) Go to the snapshots from the left menu to view the created snapshots.

3) To increase the size of the volume, right click and select create volume button.

1) Here select IOPS SSD to increase the performance change the size to 10 GB, Select current availability zone, then click create.

 2) Now we can see the newly created 10 GB volume.This drive will contain all the data from the original drive.

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