AWS Classroom Series – 30/Dec/2020

Elastic Block Volumes

• EBS volumes behave like raw unformatted block volumes
• IOPS is (Inputs/Outputs per second)
  • 1 IOPS => 256 KiB/Second
• EBS volumes can be attached to ec2 instances as storage volumes that persist independently from the life of ec2 instance
• Features:
  • AWS EBS Volume Types:
    • General Purpose SSD:
      • a balance of price and performance
      • Size Range => 1 GiB – 16 TiB
      • Two types
        • gp3: Max Throughput: 1000 MiB/S
        • gp2: Max Throughput: 250 MiB/S
      • Max IOPS: 16000
    • Provisioned IOPS SSD:
      • used for mission critical low latency & high throughput workloads
      • Size Range of 4 GiB – 64 TiB
      • Three types
        • io2 Block Express: Max IOPS 256000, Max Throughput: 4000 MiB/S
        • io2: Max IOPS 256000, Max Throughput: 4000 MiB/S
        • io1: Max IOPS: 64000, Max Throughput: 1000 MiB/S
    • Throughput Optimized HDD
      • Volume size: 125 GiB – 16 TiB
      • Max IOPS per volume: 500
      • Max Throughput per volume: 500 MiB/S
    • Cold HDD
      • Volume size: 125 GiB – 16 TiB
      • Max IOPS per volume: 250
      • Max Throughput per volume: 250 MiB/S
• Create a linux ec2 instance and verify the volume section
• Now lets add volumes of type Cold HDD of size 125 GiB and attach to the ec2 instance
• Now lets login into ec2 instance and view the disks
• Now lets create a file system in cold hdd
• Now mount the disk to the linux folder /projects
• If you want to persist this mount across restarts add entry in fstab
• Create a windows ec2 instance and add a provisioned iops
• Now lets create a provisioned iops
• Attach the volume to windows instance.
• Now connect to windows instance and verify disks
• After bringing the volume up and formatting the drive will be shown as below