Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance.
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IOPS vs Throughput. Which one to use while choosing AWS EBS
While choosing a proper EBS volume type I need to decide if IOPS or throughput is a better performance measure.
The problem is that I don't fully understand in which practical scenario each of them is better than another.
This doc says "frequent…
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How can I be alerted when an EBS instance is running out of space?
I'm running a wordpress off of AWS, and I can't figure out how to monitor if the volume is running out of capacity. There are many options for monitoring other things, but I just want to know when we run low on space.
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How to change default root EBS size in cloudformation? [AWS]
Considering there is less amount of documentation and solutions online for cloudformation I decided to address a common problem regarding changing default size of EBS volumes launched via cloudformation template
By default the instances launched…
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Amazon EC2 ebs vs gp2 ami
It's probably a silly question, but I can't understand the difference between these 2 amazon linux 2 amis:
ami-7105540e amzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.20180622.1-x86_64-ebs
ami-b70554c8 amzn2-ami-hvm-2.0.20180622.1-x86_64-gp2
Judging by this article, isn't…
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Amazon EBS, snapshots as incremental backups
I'm working on an automated mechanism for our EBS volumes to be backed up on a daily basis.
I know quite well the steps to create a new snapshot. Apparently it's all quite simple, you have an EBS volume which you can snapshot, and you can restore…
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Getting started with Django on Amazon Web Services
I'm starting to migrate a few applications to Amazon Web Services. My applications are Python/Django apps, running over MySQL.
I plan on using EC2 and EBS for starters.
I'm looking for a few things:
A good step-by-step tutorial explaining how to…
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How do the amazon web services work?
What information have you been able to gather regarding how do the amazon web services work?
What hardware do they use
What web server
What Operating System
What storage for AWS
What virtualization software for EC2/EBS
What software for they…
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Link between specified EBS volume name and actual device name in Linux system
I have EC2 instance with EBS volume attached, so that describe-instances command prints:
"DeviceName": "/dev/sdf",
"Ebs": { "Status": "attached",
"DeleteOnTermination": false,
"VolumeId":…
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What must be the file system on AWS EBS Multi-Attach volume?
I'm back again with a new question: What must be the file system on AWS EBS Multi-Attach volume?
On this website https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ebs-access-volumes-using-multi-attach/
It is written that standard file systems…
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Why can't I see my EBS volume snapshots in S3 from AWS Management Console?
If EBS volume snapshots are stored in S3, then why can't I see them in the AWS Management Console? Am I missing something here?
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(AWS/EC2/EBS) Why does "Delete on Termination" default to true for root devices?
On Amazon EC2, when you use an EBS volume as the root device for an EC2 instance, the "Delete on Termination" flag defaults to true, meaning the volume will automatically be deleted when you destroy the instance.
What is the point of this?
If the…
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How do I save an AMI to a S3 bucket?
I've created an AMI(EBS AMI) using the Amazon AWS console. That AMI has 2 snapshots attached to it.
Now I want to backup that AMI to a S3 bucket. Is this possible?
I actually need to do this to be able to then move that AMI to a bucket in a…
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Amazon EBS pricing: monthly? daily? hourly?
With Amazon Elastic Block Store, you only pay for what you use. Volume storage is charged by the amount you allocate until you release it, and is priced at a rate of $0.10 per allocated GB per month.
This is priced per month. Other things are…
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What effect does deleting EC2 snapshots have?
I'm not sure what effect deleting an EC2 snapshot has on the other ones. For example, if I snapshot an EBS volume 4 times and delete the oldest one, can I still do a full restore from the latest ones? In other words, is there any benefit in keeping…
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Amazon EC2 and EBS disk space problem
I am having a problem reconciling the space available on my EBS volume. According to the AWS console the volume is 50GB and is attached to an instance.
If I ssh to this instance and do a df -h, I get the following output:
Filesystem Size…
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