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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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Amazon EC2 - Convert EBS root device with instance store root device

I see that you can convert an instance stored instance to be EBS backed as this question shows. However, I want to do the opposite, take an EBS backed instance and convert it to be Instance Store backed. Is this possible? How do I do this?
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cloudwatch command get-metric-data

I'm not able to get the metric data through this command. aws cloudwatch get-metric-data --metric-data-queries jsonfile.json \ --start-time 2019-02-01T10:40:0000 --end-time 2019-02-27T14:12:0000 The following error is getting shown. Error…
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EBS for storing databases vs. website files

I spent the day experimenting with AWS for the first time. I've got an EC2 instance running and I mounted an Elastic Block Store (EBS) to keep the MySQL databases. Does it make sense to also put my web application files on the EBS, or should I just…
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How to 'warm up' EC2/EBS storage?

I have seen advice to 'warm up' EC2 to overcome a first write penalty:- Warm up data partitions - There is one drawback to using disk IO in EC2: a “first write” performance hit when initially writing to new partitions. To avoid this…
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Kubernetes on AWS cloud provider

I installed CentOS Atomic Host as operating system for kubernetes on AWS. Everything works fine, but it seems I missed something. I did not configure cloud provider and can not find any documentation on that. In this question I want to know: 1. What…
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How do I upgrade my Amazon Elastic Beanstalk MySQL RDS instance to 5.6?

AWS provides guidelines as to how to upgrade a MySQL 5.5 instance to MySQL 5.6 using read replicas. However, its final step is to point your application to the new database, but EBS provides no mechanism through the web console to point your…
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EC2 EBS Snapshots as Incremental Backups

I understand that AWS snapshots can create incremental backups of EBS volumes. Does AWS automatically handle the incremental part (i.e., storing only what has changed) as long as snapshots are generated from the same volume? It's unclear to me…
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PersistentVolumeClaim is stuck 'waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "ebs.csi.aws.com"' on new AWS EKS cluster

We have a EKS setup provisioned where we use a Cloud Native Buildpacks based Tekton Pipeline our PipelineRuns are stuck and pending forever without getting a Pod resource. We created a PersistentVolumeClaim like this: apiVersion: v1 kind:…
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What's the difference between ebs.csi.aws.com vs kubernetes.io/aws-ebs for provisioner?

I'm aware of the concept "provisioner" but i do not understand what intree ebs driver means. Is ebs.csi.aws.com the csi driver maintained by the aws and the other maintained by k8s itself? Is one better than the other?
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Improving Data Transfer Rate on Amazon EC2

I've got a 1-Gig EBS Volume mounted to an EC2 instance, I am copying 600MB of binary data from a Local Hard Drive (via RDS Connection) and the copying process windows is showing 10 Hours remaining. Though I have a High Speed connection…
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Using Boto to find to which device and EBS Volume is mounted

How do I find to which device an EBS Volume is mounted with Python Boto v2.0? boto.ec2.Volume has some interesting properies like attachment_state and volume_state. But are there any functions for device mapping? boto.manage.volume has…
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Can someone elaborate on these basic concepts of hosting via Amazon Web Services?

I read all over the Amazon documentations, but I'm still confused or should I say overwhelmed by the different terms. I'm coming from a traditional web hosting environment where the only concept I understand is how much storage I have and how much…
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Why can't I use the new st1/sc1 EBS volumes by AWS as root volumes

AWS launched sc1 and st1 HDD EBS volume types recently, I can't seem to use these as root volumes while launching new EC2 instances or launching from already created AMI's (tried both). I chose an m4 machine, in any case, the root volume is EBS…
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Amazon EC2 with or without EBS?

Still reading up on AWS. Amazon Large Instances comes with 850GB local storage. However, i read in case of failover and we want to power up another instance, we can just mount a EBS volume on it and start running right? That will mean that we have…
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How to Copy files from one EBS to Another EBS

The problem is simple. I need to copy the files from one EBS to Another without passing the files through my local machine. Is this possible? If so how?
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