EBS - A life saver in information technology
January 27, 2023
EBS - A life saver in information technology
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
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.
- 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.
- Data Persistence
- For backup and restore
- Encryption
- Flexibility with a wide range of EC2 instance type
- It helps in disaster recovery of application
- Helpful in cost reduction for data storage
- Improve security and compliance of our data
EBS is easy to use and very cost efficient which helps in cost reduction of maintenance and data storage. AWS EBS is a highly available and durable storage as compared to others.
Do you think Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)'s feature set?
Yes
Did Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) again?
Yes