Planning and Designing Your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Architecture
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy-to-use, high-performance, block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale. You can deploy a broad range of workloads on Amazon EBS, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows. This first course dives deep into creating and implementing plans for deploying applications on an Amazon EBS infrastructure.
In this course you will learn to:
- Plan and design an Amazon EBS architecture that supports your application performance requirements and your organization's data availability needs
- Identify your application and organizational requirements to prepare an Amazon EBS deployment
- Identify the type of workloads appropriate for Amazon EBS
- Determine the EBS volume type required to achieve a given application performance profile
- Identify repeatable and scalable deployment strategies available in AWS
Designing an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Strategy for Your Organization
This second course dives deep into architecting your Amazon EBS deployments for security using a multi-account organizational strategy. You will learn to separate functionality and projects using separate accounts, implement encryption everywhere, and use access controls and policies to limit access to resources.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Implement a strategy to securely manage EBS resources across an organization
- Identify strategies to create multi-account environment
- Identify strategies to move EBS volumes between accounts within an organization and across different organizations
Designing for Availability and Durability in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes are designed to be highly available, reliable, and durable. In this third course of the Amazon EBS deep dive, you explore how to design your infrastructure workloads to ensure a resilient architecture. You review best practices and concepts to consider when choosing and using your Amazon EBS volumes, such as service tiers, service level agreements with your business units, and snapshot considerations. Finally, this course explores backing up and restoring Amazon EBS volumes to meet your business needs.
In this course, you will learn to:
- Differentiate between business-critical and non-critical workloads
- Use tools for scheduling and automating EBS snapshot production
- Identify differences between application and crash-consistent snapshots
- Differentiate between the backup and restore tools for EBS
- Design backup and restore strategies for EBS
