Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) supports a wide range of both transaction-intensive and throughput-intensive workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this fourth course of the Amazon EBS deep dive, you learn how to manage your EBS volumes, how to back up and restore volumes, and best practices for working with volumes. The course introduces you to how Amazon uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt and decrypt your volumes and snapshots, and how to restore volumes using different encryptions keys. Finally, this course explains the value of monitoring and auditing Amazon EBS using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.
Course level: Advanced
Duration: 60 minutes
Activities
This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
Configure and manage EBS volumes and file systems
Modify size, performance, and type of your deployed EBS volumes
Troubleshoot common EBS volume issues
Implement automated snapshot and snapshot deletion policies
Manage Amazon EBS volume encryption
Audit EBS volume activity
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
Cloud architects
IT professionals
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Completed the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Primer course
Course outline
Lesson 1: Introduction
- How to use this course
- Course introduction
Lesson 2: Working with EBS volumes
- Review of Amazon EBS volumes
- Comparing SSD options
- Comparing HHD options
Lesson 3: Working with EBS Volumes
- Organizing resources using tags
- Amazon EBS specific tagging options
- Root volume considerations
- Termination settings
- Differences between Amazon EBS and Instance store volumes
- Amazon EC2 instance support for volumes
- Attaching volumes
- Formatting and using volumes
- Attaching volumes to a Windows instance
- Practice building volumes: Self-paced lab
Lesson 4: Managing Snapshots
- How Amazon EBS Snapshots work
- Snapshot terms and functions
- Automating the snapshot lifecycle
Lesson 5: Best Practices for Managing Volumes and Snapshots
- A Well-Architected environment
- Using compute optimizer
- Tagging resources
- Managing volumes and snapshots
- Deleting instances and snapshots
Lesson 6: Managing Amazon EBS Encryption
- Amazon EBS encryption terms
- How encryption works
- Encryption FAQs
- Encryption by default
- Encryption scenarios
Lesson 7: Monitoring Amazon EBS
- EBS volume status checks
- EBS volume events
- Working with an impaired volume
Lesson 8: Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Metrics and Amazon EBS
- Monitoring to optimize storage costs
- Additional metrics for monitoring
- Nitro-based metrics
Lesson 9: Collecting Metrics from Amazon EC2 Using CloudWatch Agent
- What is the Amazon CloudWatch agent?
- Systems that support the agent
- Installing CloudWatch agent for Linux
- Installing CloudWatch agent for Windows Server
- Creating and editing the configuration file
- Discussing agent specific metrics
Lesson 10: Auditing Amazon EBS Activity
- What is AWS CloudTrail?
- AWS CloudTrail features
- Supported Amazon EBS API actions
- Understanding Event record details
Lesson 11: Knowledge Check
- Knowledge check questions
Lesson 12: Resources and Feedback
- Resources
- Feedback
