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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store ?

Block Level Storage volumes Network attached Persistent storage

Amazon Elastic Block Store

EBS Volume can only be attached to one instance at a time Many EBS volumes can be attached to a single instance If an instance fails or is detached from an Amazon EBS volume, the volume can be attached to any other instance in that Availability Zone

Features
High performance file system Flexibility: 1GB to 1TB Availability: Replicated within a Availability Zone Security: Private to your EC2 instances Performance: EBS Optimized + PIOPS Backups: Point in time snapshots

Standard vs Provisioned IOPS

Standard Volumes are suitable for
Boot Volumes Moderate and Bursty IO Sequential IO

Provisioned IOPS Volumes are suitable for

Transactional applications High & consistent IO

Common Use cases

EBS is suitable for : Databases : MySQL, Oracle , SQL etc File System: XFS, Ext 3 , Ext 4 NoSQL : MongoDB Applications : Microsoft exchange Search : Apache Solr Network File Systems : GlusterFS, Cerph

Monitoring EBS
Pre selected metrics in CloudWatch for monitoring EBS Read/Write Bytes Read/Write Ops Total read/write time Idle time Queue length Throughput % ConsumedReadWriteOps

Performance : EBS Optimized

EBS Optimized have dedicated bandwidth EC2 EBS optimized instances are:
M1.large (500 Mbps) M2.Xlarge(1 Gbps) M2.4Xlarge(1 Gbps) More instance types are in roadmap

EBS optimized are better choice for Std or provisioned IOPS volumes

Performance : EBS Striping

Stripe Multiple EBS Volumes for performance RAID 0:
Popular approach on AWS Supports Std & Provisioned IOPS 10s of thousands IOPS Increased IO and bandwidth

RAID 1+0:
Not very popular like RAID 0 Fault tolerance is critical

Performance : Queue Depth

Queue Depth : maintains the number of
pending I/O requests
Queue Depth of 5 per 1000 IOPS is recommended

EBS Volume Durability

Highly available & reliable Volume data Replicated across multiple servers in an Availability Zone Snapshots to s3

EBS Snapshots
Point in time snapshots Written to S3 ( not to buckets) Incremental backup Create new volume from snapshots

EBS Snapshot Best practices (1)

Freeze data while snapshots are taken
XFS File system has freeze command

Always snapshot after un mount Create fresh volume from snapshot and mount it

EBS Snapshots Best practices (2)

Snapshot from read replica or slaves
It reduces impact on your master

Snapshots during off peak usage Snapshot every major deployments Use XFS for consistent snapshot

EBS - Free Tier

30 GB of storage 2 million I/O 1 GB of Snapshot storage Refer : aws.amazon.com/ebs for latest info

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