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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Elastic Block Storage


Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) is a durable block storage volume that can be used with EC2 instances. EBS offers reliable high performance that enables the applications to run efficiently. We can scale the EBS volume up and down within minutes by paying a low price for the volume we use. EBS handles fault tolerance by replicating the volume in availability zones. EBS also provides the option to take a snapshot of the EBS volume which can be stored on Amazon S3 periodically. This snapshot can be used as a baseline for new volume or can be used for backup and restore purposes. EBS offers a wide range of volumes which are efficient in different use cases. We can choose wisely which type of EBS volume is suitable for our application or software. The following are the volume types:

  • General Purpose SSD (gp2)
  • Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
  • Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
  • Cold HDD (sc1)
  • Magnetic (standard)