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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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Storing data on EBS vs EC2

I'm having trouble understanding whether my data on an AWS EC2 instance is on the EC2 itself or on the attached EBS. I used scp to copy some files from my computer to the folder /home/ec2-user. At this point is the data already on the EBS volume or…
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Can Amazon EBS run on it's own or does it need to be attached to an instance?

Can EBS run on it's own or does it need to be attached to an instance? I'm confused by the whole thing. Many thanks.
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EBS Read Speeds

Looking at the C4 specifications at http://www.ec2instances.info/ I see that it has an EBS Optimized bandwidth. My question is, is this bandwidth on a per EBS volume or for all EBS volumes bandwidth? Also, is this still going to be bound by the…
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Confusion over AWS EBS Snapshot

I'm confused with the incremental backup mechanism of EBS snapshot. Suppose If i start taking EBS volume backup say at 8 AM. During backing up if there is any activity/changes being performed on the volume, does it also gets backed up or it will…
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How to increase the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

Once you run out of space, is there easier way to increase the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage?
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AWS/EBS Background Jobs in Rails

I have an app on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk/RDS/EC2/etc written in Rails. The app has some database entries that need to be deleted after a certain time, and was thinking of using a gem to create a background task. However, all the gems I see are…
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Amazon EC2 with EBS how to backup and restore if volume and mount points change

I have an existing EC2 instance which has 2 EBS volumes attached. Now I want to change the instance and have only one big instance which contains ALL the data (aka "/"). How can I easily change the EBSs and its mount points but keep the data?
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Enabling mounted EBS volumes at startup in Amazon EC2 on Windows

I'm trying to bring a drive online automatically on startup in Windows on EC2, the device is present in the Disk Management app, just offline. I'm using a custom AMI built using Packer and would like to have it do this when the AMI is launched into…
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AWS EBS not saving the directory status when detach and attach

Creating a file into a volume in order to reuse it in different instances but it does not working. Creating a simple file in the volume in the first instance. I was testing something pretty easy on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I was using or testing…
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AWS EC2 - how to mount existing EBS (on /) on a newly launched instance

I had to terminate my instance. It was using an EBS vol. I launched a new instance with root EBS vol = /dev/xvda1 I attached the old vol using aws console. lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk └─xvda1…
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encryption of ebs volume after creation amazon web services

I want to use KMS to encrypt my volumes. I know how to do it upon creation but with the already created volumes I cant seem to find a solution. Is the RDS logic applied for ebs too? Is there only the possibility to do it upon creation?
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Work stack with AWS::EC2::VolumeAttachment to disk in data stack can't be cleanly deleted

I have two stacks: myData and myWorker. The worker uses the data. I get errors when deleting the worker. The errors complain that his attachment to the data is still active. myData is long lived and contains myVolume, an…
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Using elastic ip for amazon's ElasticBeanstalk instance

I have a Single-Instance EB environment, with an elastic ip. However, I can't seem to ssh to the current instance using the elastic ip, only the private ip. How do I fix it? When I try to ssh using the elastic ip, it just hangs.
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Remove physical volumes from logical volume without losing data

# pvs output PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/xvdf server-backups-vol lvm2 a-- 1024.00g 0 /dev/xvdk server-backups-vol lvm2 a-- 1024.00g 0 /dev/xvdn server-backups-vol lvm2 a-- 1024.00g 0 …
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Create AWS EC2 Windows instance using encrypted EBS

I am trying to create an EC2 instance (running Windows Server 2012 R2) with an encrypted EBS volume. I am using OpsWorks and there doesn't seem to be an option to create an EC2 instance with an encrypted volume. I am wondering if there is a way to…
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