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Amazon EC2 - Instance Storage
Section 5 of 30
EBS volumes, snapshots, AMIs, Instance Store, and EFS for EC2 persistent and ephemeral storage
70 min•intermediate
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Key Takeaways
- •EBS volumes are network drives bound to specific AZs, providing persistent block storage
- •Snapshots enable backup and cross-AZ/region migration of EBS volumes
- •Instance Store provides high-performance ephemeral storage that's lost on stop/termination
- •EFS provides managed NFS for multi-AZ, multi-instance shared file storage (Linux only)
- •gp3/io2 for SSDs, st1/sc1 for HDDs; only SSD types can boot EC2 instances
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