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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides reliable and secure storage for apps and databasea.
  • Highly scalable
  • Extremely strong backup mechanism
  • Provides enhanced encryption and data protection
  • EBS volume can be attached to only one EC2 instance at a time
  • The volumes are limited to the Availability zones of the instance they are attached to
  • The maximum size is 64TB. We have had usecases where we needed larger volume
  • The backup snapshots are stored on S3 and that's an additional cost.
Andrey Lokshin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • high-performance block-storage service.
  • Easy to use.
  • Protect against the failure with almost everytime.
  • Keep backups of your EC2 resources, including EBS volumes.
  • Increase the through put is little bit hard.
  • Restore the volume from your snapshot.
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High Performance & Instantly Available on Demand
  • Differential Prizing as per requirement
  • Long term durability
  • 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
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Backup and Restore
  • Disaster Recovery
  • DR testing
  • Data Persistence after termination of critical running instance
  • Limited availability: It is available in certain regions and AZ's only
  • Limited data movement: It can be used to move data in only certain AZ which makes it difficult to work with multiple AZ setup.
  • Limited support for different file systems: It natively supports a few file systems like ext4 and NTFS which can limits its use with certain types of workloads and applications
  • Limited data durability with particular AZ. That AZ goes down, it can result in data loss.
November 13, 2021

Cost effective and speedy

Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
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