The two types of scalability, vertical and horizontal. Vertical scalability is where you increase the size of the instance in…
EFS versus EBS
The difference between EBS and EFS. EBS volumes are only available in one Availability Zone and can be attached to…
AWS EFS – Elastic File System
EFS is an acronym for elastic file system. AWS EFS is a network file system which is managed and is…
EC2 Instance Store
Whilst EB2 network drives offer good but limited performance, there is another type of volume store called EC2 Instance Store.…
AWS AMI
AMI is an acronym for Amazon Machine Image and represents an EC2 instance which has been customised (Think of an…
AWS EBS Snapshots
Think of an EBS Snapshot as a way of backing up an EBS volume at a certain point in time.…
AWS EBS Encryption
Creation of an encrypted EBS volume results in the following: Data at rest is encrypted by default All EBS Volume…
AWS EBS Multi-Attach
EBS multi-attach is available for specific EBS Volumes (Only for Io1 and Io2 family) and provides a way to attach…
AWS EBS Volume Types
General Purpose SSD – Low latency, cost effective storage good for Development, Test Environments, Virtual Machines (Desktops), Boot Volumes etc.…
AWS EBS Volume
EBS is an acronym for Elastic Block Storage and is a network storage volume which is attached to an EC2…