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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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Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We use EBS to provide persistent storage to our EC2 instances. It enables us to store data which remains persistent even when the instance is stopped or termimated. And allows us to startup the server without any loss of data. EBS is highly scalable. In case an EC2 instance goes down, it allows us to quickly spin up new instances with same configuration.
Andrey Lokshin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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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.
Score 8 out of 10
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides block-level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes behave like raw, unformatted block devices. You can mount these volumes as devices on your instances. EBS volumes that are attached to an instance are exposed as storage volumes that persist independently from the life of the instance.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon EBS is the perfect storage solution for all your data needs. Whether you're backing up your EC2 instance, archiving data, or storing it for future use. Similarly, for our organization, we used EBS for backing up our EC2 instances while having web apps deployed in the instances. And have used EBS as one of our primary storage options.
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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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.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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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.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using EBS for backup and restore process. It's quite helpful to monitor our running instance with scheduled backup. In case, anything goes wrong with current running instance, backups are life saver. For disaster recover and DR Test, we are making great use of EBS volume in our organisation.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
AWS EBS is working fine to store the data on the server. The information was stored on the hard disc, which caused a challenge in retrieving it. The price is also quite low. Our only issue was with latency. Large volumes of data are also extracted using EBS. It does, however, take time.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Right now I am using it to save the statistics on the server. There became a hassle getting the statistics due to the fact the statistics became saved at the difficult drive. The value is likewise pretty cheap. The best hassle we had was latency. EBS is likewise used to extract big quantities of data. However, it takes time.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We are using this to Storage for our EC2 instances and customers information. We've been able to use this to scale up and down our storage requirements as the situation progresses. EBS backed instances can be stopped and restarted without losing any data on the EBS volume.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We have started using it to keep track of customer data. There was a problem getting the information Because it was stored on a hard disc. In addition, the costs are really affordable. So, EBS is quite useful to extract large amounts of data. It enables us to swiftly increase the amount of space available for our databases.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Right now I am working with it to store the information on the server. There was a problem getting the information because the information was stored on the hard drive. The cost is also quite cheap. The only problem we had was latency. EBS is also used to extract large amounts of data. However, it takes time.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using it to store information about customers. There was a problem retrieving the information because the information is stored on the hard drive. The costs are also quite affordable. The only problem we had was latency. EBS is also used to extract large amounts of data. However, it takes some time.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using it to store customer information. There is a problem retrieving the information because it is saved on a hard drive. The costs are also rather affordable. The only issue we're having is with latency. The EBS has also been used to extract a large amount of data. However, it takes some time.
Tom Blazek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We use EBS to provision storage for our EC2 and our RDS instances. It allows us to quickly provision more space for our VM's and DB's. We can use SSD for our high-performance needs and regular spinning disk for servers that just need raw storage. We only have a few VM's and databases but are looking to migrate more in the near future
Bagit Airlangga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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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.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We conducted an internal POC using Amazon EC2 instances that required fast processing of streams of data. Amazon EBS helped in this regard. EBS couples well with the EC2 instances, thus helping us achieve our goal. We used SSD volumes as we were working with NoSQL data. We were able to process the data coming from EBS and store the output in S3.
November 13, 2021

Cost effective and speedy

Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Since our organization is using Amazon cloud service for storing data or to attach additional storage we use EBS(elastic block store) since they are raw and quite ideal for flat-file systems, database mounting any kind of drive also. Due to their elasticity nature, they can be attached to multiple EC2 instances and data will always be persistent.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
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