Amazon Elastic Block Store Concepts

Internal

• Amazon Elastic Block Store

Overview

Amazon EBS provides durable, block-level storage volumes.

EC2 and EBS

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AmazonEBS.html

EC2 and EBS

Block Device Mapping

EC3 Block Device Mapping

Volume

Each volume has a volume ID.

Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes can be mounted directly into Kubernetes pods as awsElasticBlockStore volumes.

Volume Types

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html

gp2

General purpose SSD

io1

Provisioned IOPS SSD

st1

Throughput optimized HDD

sc1

Cold HDD

ESB Volume Operations

• Create an ESB volume

Encryption

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html