🧪 Self Paced Lab: Elastic Block Store Notes

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Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Lab Notes:
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EBS - volumes are like hard drives on a computer
The data on them persists through the lifetime of the volume and can be transported between virtual machines as needed

In the Console:
ELASTIC BLOCK STORE -> VOLUMES

Always recommended you give EBS volumes names.
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CREATE VOLUME:
  Volume Type: Magnetic or SSD
  Size: Up to 16TB
  IOPS: Speed of the desk Input/Output per second
  Availability Zone: Where to create volume (should be same AZ as instance creating it)
  Snapshot ID: Allows a previous snapshot to be restored onto volum
  Encryption: Chooses whether the contents of the volume should be automatically encrypted when stored on disk
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 ATTACH VOLUME:
  ACTIONS-> Attach Volume
  
 SNAPSHOT OF VOLUME:
  Snapshots are incremental point-in-time-snapshots. Incremental backups, meaning that only blocks that have changed 
  are saved. Minimizes time to create.
  
  ACTIONS -> Create Snapshot
  
  View Snapshots from left hand pane.
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MODIFY THE EBS VOLUME:
  Volumes -> Select 'Volume name here'
  ACTIONS -> Modify Volume 
  Change the size of the volume