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Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store]

Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store]

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Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store]


This exam validates your ability to configure, manage, and optimize Amazon EBS storage for EC2. You'll gain practical experience with volume types, backups, encryption, and performance tuning to support production-ready cloud applications.


Skills Required

  • Understanding of Amazon EC2 and storage integration
  • Knowledge of different EBS volume types and their use cases
  • Experience with snapshot creation, recovery, and automation
  • Familiarity with performance tuning and cost optimization strategies


Who should take the Exam?

    This exam is ideal for:

    • Cloud architects and solution engineers working with AWS infrastructure
    • System administrators managing EC2 instances and storage resources
    • DevOps professionals optimizing storage performance and cost
    • Developers building applications that require block-level storage
    • AWS certification aspirants seeking deeper expertise in storage services


    Course Outline

    • Introduction to Amazon EBS
    • EBS Volume Types and Configuration
    • Snapshots and Backup Management
    • Performance Optimization and Monitoring
    • EBS Security and Encryption
    • Real-World Scenarios and Troubleshooting

    Amazon EBS [Elastic Block Store] FAQs

    Amazon EBS provides block-level storage for EC2 instances, suitable for use cases like databases, log processing, and application data storage.

    EBS provides persistent block storage for running EC2 instances, while S3 is object storage designed for scalable data archiving and retrieval.

    Not directly, but you can copy snapshots across regions and create new volumes from those snapshots.

    gp3 offers better baseline performance and allows independent scaling of IOPS and throughput, unlike gp2.

    EBS supports encryption using AWS KMS, which ensures that all data at rest, in transit, and in snapshots is encrypted.

    Yes, snapshots can be used to launch new volumes in any Availability Zone within the same region.

    AWS automatically replicates volumes within an AZ for durability. You can restore from a snapshot if needed.

    Use Amazon CloudWatch to track IOPS, throughput, and latency metrics.

    Yes, if the EBS volume is marked for deletion on termination. You can modify this setting to retain volumes.

    Yes, AWS Free Tier offers limited EBS usage, including 30 GB of storage and 2 million I/Os per month.

     

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