AWS Classroomnotes 07/Sep/2023

AWS Disk storage

Activity: Mounting AWS EBS on linux instances

• Create an ec2 instance with ubuntu ami and an additional volume of size 1 GiB
  
• refer the class room video for commands an their usage
• To persist the mounts use /etc/fstab. Below is sample entry of disk to be mounted on /datadrive

UUID=33333333-3b3b-3c3c-3d3d-3e3e3e3e3e3e   /datadrive   xfs   defaults,nofail   1   2

• In my case i have added the following entry into /etc/fstab

UUID=f9254cce-13ed-4382-9ec0-3ec39b727d57   /tools   xfs   defaults,nofail   1   2

• Now restart the ec2

AWS Backup for disks, Snapshots

Lifecycle Manager

• Create a lifecycle for EBS snapshots
  
  
  
  
  

AWS Backup Service

• AWS Backup service enables backup for
  • EBS
  • EC2
  • RDS and many other services
    
• Next Steps:
  • File Shares
  • Encryptions

Exercise:

• Mount the 1 GiB Disk to any linux instance
• now increase the disk size and handle in linux