Explain Amazon Elastic Block Storage and its use cases

This recipe explains what Amazon Elastic Block Storage and its use cases

Recipe Objective - Explain Amazon Elastic Block Storage and its use cases?

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is widely used and is defined as a service that provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by the Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS). The Amazon Elastic Block Store provides a range of options for storage performance and cost. These options are further divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for the transactional workloads such as boot volumes (performance depends primarily on the IOPS) and databases and disk-backed storage for the throughput intensive workloads for example MapReduce and log processing (performance depends primarily on the MB/s). Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is also defined as an easy-to-use, scalable and high-performance block-storage service that is designed for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazin EBS helps in protecting against failures with 99.99% availability including the replication within the Availability Zone(AZs) and the 99.99% durability with io2 Block Express volumes.

Benefits of Amazon Elastic Block Storage

  • The Amazon Elastic Block Storage provides consistency with Low latency performance. It provides a Backup facility along with innovation and restoration. It provides an option to modify scalability with up and down both. Further, it provides Location Flexibility and gives Excellent Performance. It is coined as Reliable and secure storage. Amazon Elastic Block Storage is Scalable and is further innovative.

System Requirements

  • Any Operating System(Mac, Windows, Linux)

This recipe explains Amazon Elastic Block Storage and Use cases of Amazon Elastic Block Storage.

Use cases of Amazon Elastic Block Storage

    • It provides the feature of building users SAN in the cloud for the Input and Output intensive applications.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage helps in migrating mid-range, on-premises storage area network (SAN) workloads to the cloud. It Attaches high-performance and high-availability block storage for mission-critical applications.

    • It runs relational or NoSQL databases.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage helps in deploying and scaling users choice of databases including the famous SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB.

    • It provides the right size of big data analytics engines to the users.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage easily resizes clusters for the big data analytics engines such as Hadoop and Spark and further freely detach and reattachs volumes.

    • It provides Cost-effective services.

Amazon Elastic Block Storage are cost-effective and ideal for frequent backups. Users can use tools such as AWS Cost Explorer to track the Amazon EBS snapshot usage and spend, and further optimize the storage costs as needed. it helps in saving up to 75% in the Amazon EBS snapshot storage costs by using EBS Snapshots Archive for the long-term retention (over 90 days) of seldom-accessed snapshots.

    • It provides Security.

Amazon Elastic Block Security offers a simple encryption solution for users of Amazon EBS resources that does not require users to build, maintain, and secure their key management infrastructure. It can be easily configured using the AWS account to enforce encryption of any new EBS volumes and snapshots users create, including snapshots of the on-premises data.

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