Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Primer (Includes Labs)

In this curriculum, you acquire the knowledge you need to start using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). You learn about the features and benefits, use cases, and key elements of Amazon EBS. You learn how to select the correct EBS volume type and optimize your volumes for cost and performance. You learn how Amazon EBS integrates with other AWS services. You also gain practical hands-on experience creating and managing EBS volumes and Amazon EBS Snapshots through an optional self-paced lab. The cost of this lab is not included with free digital training on aws.training.

• Course Level: Intermediate    
• Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes

Activities

This course includes online materials, demonstrations, exercises, knowledge check questions, and a hands-on lab.

Curriculum objectives

In this course, you will learn to:    

• Explain Amazon EBS features and benefits    
• Discuss common and practical use cases for Amazon EBS    
• Differentiate between Amazon EBS volume types    
• Describe the key Amazon EBS technical options and specifications    
• Outline the Amazon EBS pricing structure    
• Summarize Amazon EBS relationship with other AWS services    
• Explain how to monitor Amazon EBS volumes    
• Implement and manage Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots    
• Create and mount Amazon EBS volumes    
• Modify Amazon EBS volumes    
• Create Amazon EBS Snapshots    
• Restore Amazon EBS volumes from snapshots

Intended audience

This course is intended for:    

• Cloud architects    
• Storage architects    
• Developers    
• Operations engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:    

• Completed the Getting Started with AWS Storage course

Curriculum outline

Course: Amazon Elastic Block Store Primer     

• Introduction to block storage     
• Introduction to Amazon EBS    
• Types of Amazon EBS storage    
• Pricing    
• Amazon EBS architecture    
• Integration with other AWS services    
• Knowledge check     
• Resources and feedback

Lab: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)    

• Create and attach an EBS volume to an EC2 instance    
• Create and configure a file system on an attached EBS volume    
• Modify the EBS volume size and expand the file system on the volume    
• Modify the EBS volume type and provisioned performance for an existing application    
• Configure a snapshot for an existing EBS volume    
• Restore an EBS volume from an existing snapshot