EC2 Instance Storage

Question 1

What is EBS?

Answer 1

An EBS (Elastic Block Store) Volume is a network drive you can attach to your instance while they run. It allows your instances to persist data, even after their termination.

Question 2

How many instances can an EBS be mounted to?

Answer 2

1

Question 3

What is EC2 Image Bulder

Answer 3

Used to automate the creation of Virtual Machines or container images

Question 4

What is EC2 Instance Store

Answer 4

EBS Volumes are network drives with good but “limited” performance - if you need a high-performance hardware disk, use EC2 Instance Store

Question 5

What is EFS?

Answer 5

EFS (Elastic File Store) is a managed NFS (network file system) that can be mounted on 100’s of EC2 instances

Question 6

What is Amazon FSX

Answer 6

Used to launch 3rd party high-performance file systems on AWS