How to use Amazon EBS?

<p>Unblock your EBS storage. Although you access a EBS volume via its instances like a hard drive, you can use it as system drive or a primary data storage for apps. EBS volumes persist independent of your EC2 instance life. You can also dynamically increase size, modify provisioned IOPS, and change between SSD and HDD volumes. And although volumes are limited to only one AZ you can attach one volume to multiple instances with the Multi-Attach feature of prov. SSD. However, the only way to attach instance store volumes to an instance is to use block device mapping. Let&rsquo;s have a look at its use cases and an snapshot in an app architecture:</p> <h1><strong>1)Use Cases</strong></h1> <p>EBS isn&rsquo;t only for EC2 instances. You can attach them to EC2 instances like a hard drive and it persists a deleted instance. But you can also create a file system on its volumes, run a Relational or NoSQL DB, or use it as a boot volume. Have a look at the following use cases:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@abylead/how-to-use-amazon-ebs-7e0d97c6230f"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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