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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I/O request issue in using Amazon EBS with microinstance
I am using microinstance with EBS but because of lots of I/O request cost of using ebs becomes big issue for us.
Can you suggest me any ways of using ebs volume with less I/O requests.?

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Amazon ec2 -ebs-mySql-CouchDB-ldap
I already have a system running on amazon ec2 . The system use three database MySql,CouchDB and ldap.
But now i want to use amazon ebs. Can anyone please help me. I am new to Linux. And do i need to change code which connect with these databases…

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How to access mysql data on Amazon EBS
I have mounted the volume, but i did not know how to access to EBS mysql data from my local machine? Really appreciate for any suggestions.

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AWS EBS volume seems bottlenecked
I have a postgres data warehouse type machine that does 24/7 continuous work. It goes through periods of very problematic performance which I've had the hardest time figuring out the cause of. Here are some bullet points:
t3.2xlarge
gp3, 1.6TB,…

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aws cli: how to find kms key id?
When I run the following command, this is what I get.
$ aws ec2 get-ebs-default-kms-key-id --region us-west-2
{
"KmsKeyId": "alias/aws/ebs"
}
But what I really want is the key id under "(default) aws/ebs" (shown below).

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Amazon Web services: Why my used elastic compute cloud storage is at 8.35 GB out of 30 GB?
So I am running a nodejs discord bot on AWS EC2 (free tier). I would want to stay in free range as much as possible. In the billing section I came across my usage and found that I am using 8.35 gb.
There are 2 instances linked to my account out of…

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How to Calculate the new AWS EBS gp3 Cost?
I'm confused because of the AWS price examples in AWS, I think it's not clear enough because the 2000 GB in gp2 costs $200 in the AWS Calculator
Anyway, as I understand the cost,
The next gp3 will cost ($2.4 / Month)? (0.08 * 30GB/Month)
And Here…

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Tiller install on AWS eks cluster not working (permissions issue)
I am installing tiller onto an EKS cluster from a client machine. The goal is to install an application, JupyterHub, via helm onto the EKS kubernetes cluster.
I installed it on one cluster just fine, following the steps below (our test…

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How is Amazon EBS disk space shared across instances?
If a 2GB Amazon EBS volume is attached to 2 Amazon EC2 instances, is that EBS space divided per EC2 instance or is that space of 2GB is available for all of the EC2 instances?

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Creating EBS io2 volume and IOPS costs
I am Creating a new EBS io2 volume and from the AWS documentation it is clear that there is "up to 500 IOPS for every provisioned GBis" . So if I provision 100 GB I should get 50000 IOPS. However there is an option to specify IOPS while creating a…

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How to detach and attach EBS volumes on schedule
I want to detach and attach an EBS volume on schedule.
Here is the flow example: I have 10 EC2 instances and each run a copy of my app. This app/api serves data that is on EBS volume attached to the instance. We want to refresh data every night on…

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Is there any way to restore EBS volume from snapshot using AWS CLI or CloudFormation?
Is there a way to restore EBS volume from snapshot using AWS CLI or CloudFormation?

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AWS EC2 & EBS for personal development server
I'm AWS free-tier user and planning to Use AWS EC2 & EBS as a personal web development server. I will be using this machine 100 hours max in a month. Will be stopping and starting the EC2 instance. What will be the best configuration for EC2/EBS for…

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What type of "data" does Elastic Block Storage store?
I am studying for my AWS SAA exam and while reviewing the various services I got stuck on the concept of Elastic Block Storage, what exactly it stores, and how this is different than AWS RDS.
Let me elaborate.
So from what I understand, EBS is a…

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How to make snapshot of EBS Volume from aws cli?
I want to make snapshot of EBS Volume via script and it will be delete automatically after 1 day.

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