Elastic Block Store (EBS)

EBS Volumes

• It’s a network drive (there might be a bit of latency)
• It’s locked to an Availability Zone (AZ)
• Have a provisioned capacity (size in GBs, and IOPS)
  • You get billed for all the provisioned capacity
  • You can increase the capacity of the drive over time
• Delete on Termination attribute
  • Controls the EBS behaviour when an EC2 instance terminates
• You don’t have to detach a volume or restart the instance to change it
• Increase volume size (you can only increase, not decrease)
• Change volume type
  • GP2 -> GP3
  • Specify desired IOPS or throughput performance (or it will guess)
• Adjust performance (increase or decrease)