Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Pricing

Question 1

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Answer 1

easy to use, high performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon EC2 instances.

Question 2

Amazon EBS two volume types

Answer 2

SSD-backed volumes

HDD-backed volumes

Question 3

SSD-backed volumes

Answer 3

optimized for transactional workloads involving frequent read/write operations with small I/O size, where the dominant performance attribute is IOPS.

Question 4

HDD-backed volumes

Answer 4

optimized for large streaming workloads where throughput (measured in megabits per second) is a better performance measure than IOPS.

Question 5

Amazon EBS Pricing three factors

Answer 5

Volumes
Snapshots
Data Transfer

Question 6

Volumes

Answer 6

Volume storage for all EBS volume types is charged by the amount of GB you provision per month, until you release the storage

Question 7

Snapshots

Answer 7

Snapshot storage is based on the amount of space your data consumes in Amazon S3.

EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)

EBS direct APIs for Snapshots

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EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)

Answer 8

charged in Date Services Unit- Hours (DSUs) for each Availability Zone in which it is enabled

Question 9

EBS direct APIs for Snapshots

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EBS direct APIs for Snapshots provide access to directly read EBS snapshot data and identify differences between two snapshots.

Question 10

Data Transfer

Answer 10

Inbound data transfer is free, and outbound data transfer charges are tiered. If you use external or cross-region data transfers, additional EC2 data transfer charges will apply.