EBS Block Optimization Flashcards
EBS Snapshots Archive
create archival snapshots.
EBS Snapshots Archive offers you a lower price per GB compared to standard EBS Snapshots. The storage tier is intended for storing long-term archival copies of your snapshots.
AWS Backup
create backup copies of your data to maintain archival data copies rather than keeping additional snapshots
EBS Pricing
Pricing rates are quoted per GB per month (GB-month) for volumes, IOPS per month (IOPS-month) for provisioned IOPS, and MB/s per month (MB/s-month) for provisioned throughput.
Solid state drive (SSD) backed EBS volume type
General Purpose SSD (gp2 and gp3) volumes types and Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 and io2) volume types.
Hard disk drive (HDD) backed EBS volume types
HDD-backed EBS volume types include Throughput Optimized HDD st1 volumes type and Cold HDD sc1 volume type. The pricing structure for each volume type varies.
GP 2 pricing
gp2 – With gp2 volumes, you increase the provisioned volume capacity to increase sustained IOPS and throughput performance.
GP 3 Pricing
gp3 – With gp3 volumes, you provision your volume capacity and can provision IOPS and throughput separately.
io1
io1 – With io1 volumes, you provision both your volume capacity and IOPS separately.
io2
io2 – With io2 volumes, you provision both your volume capacity and IOPS separately.