Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

wikipedia:Amazon Elastic Block Store (2008)

• https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
• Types:
  • SDD based: io1, io2 (Aug 2020)
  • SDD based: gp2, gp3
  • HDD based: st1, sc1

• Minimum sizes:
  • st1, sc1: 125 GB (since Dec 2020), previously 500 GB
  • gp3 (since Dec 2020)
    • 20% lower price-point per GB than existing gp2 volumes
    • Independently provision IOPS and throughput, separate from storage capacity
    • Baseline performance of 3,000 IOPs and 125MB/s at any volume size, scale up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s for an additional fee
    • Migration from gp2 without service interruption
    • 1 GiB - 16 TiB

Features

• EBS support snapshots and cloning.
• Increase size, decrease not supported https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/requesting-ebs-volume-modifications.html
• Replicated within its Availability Zone
• Amazon EBS Encryption

Costs

• 1TB 81$/month https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=d44dd24e0dcd14ed9eddfdc2d70608c8a63aec4c

Limitation

• Decrease size of a volume not supported

Timeline

• Nov 2021 Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive
• July 2018 Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager for EBS Snapshots
• May 2014 Amazon EBS Encryption

Activities

• Increase EBS size: Modify EBS size and execute lsblk + growpart + resize2fs https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/modify-ebs-volume-on-instance.html
• aws ec2 modify-volume --volume-id vol-0b3c663aeca5aabb7 --volume-type io2
• Request modifications to your EBS volumes

Related terms

• Google Cloud Persistent Disks, Google Cloud Storage
• EFS and NFS
• Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
• Amazon EBS CSI driver: aws-ebs-csi-driver
• Amazon RDS DB storage
• io2 Block Express
• Terraform argument/input: ebs_block_device
• Error: deleting EBS Volume
• nvme list
• Multi-attach

See also

• aws ebs [ list-snapshot-blocks | start-snapshot ]
• aws ec2 [ describe-volumes | create-volume | modify-volume | detach-volume ]
• EBS, EBS Snapshots (archive), Encryption, aws ebs, io1, io2, gp2, gp3, st1, sc1, aws_ebs_snapshot, aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ebs-volume-type-io2-more-iops-gib-higher-durability/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-ebs-reduces-minimum-volume-size-throughput-optimized-hdd-cold-hdd-volumes/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introducing-new-amazon-ebs-general-purpose-volumes-gp3/

https://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/requesting-ebs-volume-modifications.html

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-snapshots-archive/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-for-ebs-snapshots/