In this advanced course, you gain the knowledge and skills necessary to use and manage Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The course is designed to teach you how to choose the EBS volume type for your workloads based on performance and throughput requirements. You also learn how to manage EBS volume snapshots as part of the backup and recovery processes. In addition, the course covers securing Amazon EBS through encrypting volumes and controlling access to Amazon EC2 resources. You also learn about monitoring and improving Amazon EBS performance. Finally, you learn about the factors used in calculating Amazon EBS pricing and how to track your usage costs.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for:
- Storage engineers
- Systems administrators
- Cloud architects
- Other IT professionals
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Evaluate when to use Amazon EBS
- Determine which types of EBS volumes to use
- Create and manage EBS volumes and EBS snapshots
- Configure Amazon EBS encryption for volumes and snapshots
- Tune and monitor EBS objects
- Estimate and track the costs of using Amazon EBS
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
- General AWS knowledge
- General IT storage knowledge
- General IT business knowledge
