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Published inJan 2022
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Rajesh Daswani
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Rajesh Daswani

Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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Learning about Amazon EBS and instance backed store

Like virtual servers in your on-premises environment, EC2 instances require accessible block storage volume to host the instance operating system, data, and applications that need to run on the server. AWS offers two types of block storage options: Elastic Block Store and instance store volumes.

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Amazon Elastic Block Store offers a high-performance block storage service for your EC2 instances. These act as virtual hard drives for your virtual servers deployed in the cloud. Amazon EBS is a network storage service similar in nature to the way you would attach a storage volume from a Storage Area Network (SAN) to your VMs deployed on VMware, in an on-premises environment.

You would provision the required EBS volume, such as 8 GB, 30 GB, 1,000 GB, or whatever size you require, and attach it to your EC2 instance. EC2 instances require a root volume (or a system drive on Windows machines, such as the ...

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Rajesh Daswani is a senior solutions architect, AWS course content creator, and corporate trainer with over 20 years' experience in core IT infrastructure services and cloud computing. He has delivered corporate training programs and online training for several clients across the UK, USA, and India and published courses for Packt Publishing. Rajesh now delivers courses for the IaaS Academy, an online training provider that delivers on-demand cloud computing training and practice exam simulators to help students and IT professionals ace IT certification exams. You will also find extensive blog articles and exam tips on the IaaS Academy website to help you with your study and revision.
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