EBS Volume

Question 1

What’s an EBS Volume?

Answer 1

An EBS (Elastic Block Store) Volume is a network drive you can attach to your instances while they run

Example: You can attach an EBS Volume to your EC2 instance.

Question 2

What does an EBS Volume allow instances to do?

Answer 2

It allows your instances to persist data, even after their termination

Additional information: EBS Volumes help in retaining data even if the instance is stopped.

Question 3

How many instances can an EBS Volume be mounted to at a time?

Answer 3

They can only be mounted to one instance at a time (at the CCP level)

Note: At the AWS level, an EBS Volume can be attached to one EC2 instance.

Question 4

What are EBS Volumes bound to?

Answer 4

They are bound to a specific availability zone

Example: An EBS Volume created in us-east-1a will be bound to that availability zone.