Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

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This lab takes you through how to create an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume, attach it to an Amazon EC2 instance, create a file system on the volume, take a snapshot of the volume, and increase the size and IOPS.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

1 Hours 30 Minutes

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create an Amazon EBS volume
• Attach an Amazon EBS volume to an Amazon EC2 instance
• Create a file system on an Amazon EBS volume
• Modify the size of an Amazon EBS volume
• Modify the volume type and performance characteristics of an Amazon EBS volume
• Create snapshots for an Amazon EBS volume
• Restore an Amazon EBS volume from a snapshot

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Infrastructure Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• None

Course Outline

Task 1: Create and attach an EBS volume to an EC2 instance

Task 2: Create and configure a file system on an attached EBS volume

Task 3: Modify the EBS volume size and expand the file system on the volume

Task 4: Modify the EBS volume type and provisioned performance for an existing application

Task 5: Configure a snapshot for an existing EBS volume

Task 6: Restore an EBS volume from an existing snapshot