117. What do EBS and a jellyfish have in common?
AWS Bites
In this episode, we provide an overview of Amazon EBS, which stands for Elastic Block Storage. We explain what block storage is and how EBS provides highly available and high-performance storage volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances. We discuss the various EBS volume types, including GP3, GP2, provisioned IOPS, and HDD volumes, and explain how they differ in performance characteristics like IOPS and throughput. We go over important concepts like IOPS, throughput, and volume types so listeners can make informed decisions when provisioning EBS. We also cover EBS features like snapshots, encryption, direct API access, and ECS integration. Overall, this is a comprehensive guide to understanding EBS and choosing the right options based on your workload needs.
đź’° SPONSORS đź’°
AWS Bites is brought to you by fourTheorem, an AWS Partner that does CLOUD stuff really well. Go to fourtheorem.com to read about our case studies!
đź”– Chapters:
00:00 Intro 00:43 Quick intro to the use case: storing data persistently in an EC2 instance 01:30 What is Block Storage and what is EBS? 04:10 EBS Snapshots 06:15 The EBS Direct Access API 07:13 EBS internal architecture based on Physalia 10:18 Key concepts of IOPS, throughput, and volume types 13:18 Details on GP3, GP2, provisioned IOPS, and HDD volumes 17:36 High-level decision framework for choosing volume types 18:46 Additional EBS features like multi-attachment and ECS integration 20:39 Closing notes
In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
- EBS Official Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/what-is-ebs.html
- EBS Direct Access API: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-accessing-snapshot.html
- EBS internal configuration is implemented as “millions of tiny databases” (paper): https://www.amazon.science/publications/millions-of-tiny-databases
- EBS Pricing examples: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/#Pricing_examples
You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts:
- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-bites/id1585489017
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7PzqBFV6yt5WsTAmO5q
- Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82YTMzMTJhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==
- Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites
- RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss
Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on X, formerly Twitter:
#aws #cloud #servers #ec2 #storage #ebs #elasticblockstorage ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6udksQ5btk
133815336 Bytes