Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) from AWS is designed for application workloads that benefit from fine tuning for performance, cost and capacity. Typical use cases include Big Data analytics engines (like the Hadoop/HDFS ecosystem and Amazon EMR clusters), relational and NoSQL databases (like Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL or Cassandra and MongoDB), stream and log processing applications (like Kafka and Splunk), and data warehousing applications (like Vertica and Teradata).
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Senior Financial Analyst in Research & Development at Team Harbour, Inc. (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are serviecing out customers implementation of in-house projects and SaaS product businesses for B2C markets. We are mostly dealing with object storages, especially for meta data dependent projects but for the large corporate use we experienced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), which is targeted for Mission critical infrastructure. The scope was large corporate reporting systems, based on implemented ERP (SAP AG) to have precise and frequently updated reporting server and dependent on frequent update industrial infrastructure which needed low latency connectivity of devices.
Pros
Raw storage capacity attached to your instance operative system
Frequent data rewriting (mission critical for reporting)
Low latency connectivity (14 reporting subsidiaries in different time zones)
Videly spreaded for implementation
Fast accessible drive
Block storage are core for Java, Net mobile applications
Cons
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)does not fit for in-depth analytical systems having no internal data schema (metadata) applicable - so you need one more data base to map
Pricing should be according to the space used for large institutional users (% of capacity)
Fragmented data some times requers more sophisticated access versus API
Binded server for system runing (no external access), critical for DevOps
Most Important Features
High load capability
Fast input of data
Fast access to the drive
Java applications (FinTech)
Net (Logistics Tech)
SAP ERP integration capabilities
Return on Investment
Neutral. It is in business since of 2006 so it is more customer choise.
Productivity. We noticed that apps based on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) has more optimised code.
We expect mix of object to block featured systems in nearest future.
Localised infrastructure (RAID) went Cloud - 30% less maintanance costs
Alternatives Considered
Azure Managed Disks, Azure Managed Applications, Google Cloud Persistent Disk and Snowflake
Other Software Used
Google Cloud Persistent Disk, Snowflake, Azure Managed Disks
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Co-Founder & CTO in Research & Development at GIDE.AI (11-50 employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are integrating an open source web3 protocol called matrix.org to build our internal communication and chat platform. We are enabling Slack, Whatsapp, Discord, Instagram for our internal and external use. When using all these channels media and content gets shared between our various users and the current version of matrix does not provide a direct way for us to store the content on S3. Hence we added a EBS Volume on a general management server and then using NFS we attached it to our matrix servers. This way when we autoscale our matrix servers, the NFS bonds between the EBS and matrix servers allows us to share the stored content instantly with the newly spawned matrix servers.
Pros
High Performance & Instantly Available on Demand
Differential Prizing as per requirement
Long term durability
Cons
Network Latency can be an issue sometimes
It can become tedious to figure out the linkage between EBS & the volume mounted on the servers, especially if one is using multiple EBS
Naming conventions can be confusing, it's not automatic and if user is dis-organised then it can lead to confusing
Most Important Features
Easy Management
Availability, Durability & Longetivity
Cost Effective
Return on Investment
Its a good tool to have in your software arsenal
Very effective as it has allowed us to move/provide data between servers seamlessly
reduced downtime and improved devops management processes
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Senior Associate Technology in Information Technology at Synechron (5001-10,000 employees employees)
Pros
Data will be persistent irrespective your EC2 instance goes down
They are quite fast in terms of read and write
Memory management in terms of EBS is better than the OBS
Cons
Creating too much EBS can be disaster if you are not properly organized by tags
In terms of pricing it's a bit on higher side.
In terms of performance, there is room for improvement as sometimes reading or saving the data can be painful.
Most Important Features
Elastic block storage deployment in different AZ ( availability zone)
It can be easily detach and attach to the EC2 instance
In terms of stability , availability, durability is quite good
Return on Investment
In terms of ROI, I found it's really cost-effective since maintenance cost is not there. No need to spend extra money on the procurement of hard drives
On demand feature of Ebs is quite effective when you require extra storage you can allocate and pay as per your need.
Accessibility from everywhere and deployment of it across different geographical location.
Alternatives Considered
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS), Huawei Cloud Storage Disaster Recovery Service and Tencent Storage
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Junior Manager Data Center in Information Technology at PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (10,001+ employees employees)
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The storage is being used for the corporate website. The website is for public access across our country. Amazon Elastic Block Store is very flexible, we started small capacity, and it can be scaled up to unlimited size according to business needs. IOPS can be customized and snapshots are very useful for accidental conditions. It has a lifecycle manager that can help us to automate the creation, retention, and deletion of snapshots.
Pros
Flexible for scaled up
Customized IOPS
Lifecycle manager
Cons
Sometimes adding capacity needs downtime
Most Important Features
Elastic Volumes
Lifecycle manager
Return on Investment
AWS using operational expenditure so basically it doesn't need to invest.
We can start from small so if we think it is don't suit the organization we can delete it, so it cost less.
