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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

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…

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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

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January 27, 2023

Amazon Elastic Block Store is your friend for high throughput applications with a lot of data

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes are used when higher performance storage is needed. Usually when a certain level of IOPS is required. Databases for example. You don’t want to use it for standard storage like your OS drive.
Pros and Cons
  • High IOPS storage
  • Storage for high traffic servers
  • Storage for critical databases
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store is expensive to use
  • Because of the additional features, Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes have a learning curve to understand how and when to implement them
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Elastic Block Store is appropriate for servers that have high IOPS requirements. Things like databases. Although you may be better off using an RDS database instance in many cases as opposed to building your own database servers. Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes can be useful for any high traffic server where the standard storage volumes aren’t keeping up with throughput requirements. Possibly file servers.
Most Important Features
  • The ability to specify IOPS
Return on Investment
  • When your application needs high IOPS storage, this is a great solution that will keep your business functioning.
  • Without Amazon Elastic Block Store you could try spreading your data across several standard drives, but that introduces complexity and still has IOPS limits.
Alternatives Considered
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Amazon RDS uses Amazon Elastic Block Store storage, so you can get similar performance and not have to manage a database server if you were planning to use RDS with a database.
November 10, 2021

A easy, scalable storage option

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Amazon Elastic Block storage to help us storage Amazon images as well as augment storage we are using in conjunction with our Elastic Cloud Compute machines. It's been great for us to utilize this to scale up and down our storage needs as the scenario is introduced. With a backup solution for our existing EC2 instances, we were able to cheaply manage and back up our fleet via scripting EBS information.
Pros and Cons
  • A cost-effective way to provide storage to virtual machines
  • Easy and efficient way to create back ups of images
  • Very quick storage request and provisioning
  • Cost can be confusing to determine
  • The initial learning curve can be confusing unless you know what's going on with AWS
  • You can lose track of EBS if you aren't organized
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Elastic Block storage is a great tool to augment your existing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and allows you a good way to add, move and adjust storage. It is great also for a back up solution for your virtual resources that are in the cloud to be used in cases of disaster recovery.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Feature Ratings
Return on Investment
  • Gives us an easy way to manage and move assets around VMs.
  • Allows a quick and easy way to clone existing images.
  • Gives us an efficient way to back up and restore images.
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Elastic Block Store is a very good scaling solution for storage if you are invested in AWS. It provides a quick and easy way for you to easily get all the storage you need at and adjust it if you need more or less storage for your projects.
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Support Rating
8
The support for Amazon Elastic Block Store is great as long as you can articulate your needs. Like most tools, there may be some back and forth before you find a support person that is knowledgable in the tool and can provide you with necessary insights.
Usability
8
Amazon EBS is a great tool and fairly easy to use as long as you are familiar with the Amazon Web Service ecosystem. It allows a great way for you to move storage around easily and allows you to quickly provision storage as needed based on the business requirement. For us, it's easy to move between our EC2 images that had been linked with EBS storage between these Amazon accounts.
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