This course provides the best Amazon Web Services (AWS) tutorial for beginners to learn about AWS cloud services.

Learn about the core AWS's services like compute, storage, networking services and how they work with other services like Identity, Mobile,  Routing, and Security. This course provides you with a good grasp an all you need to know of AWS services.

This course has been designed by three AWS Solution Certified Architects who have a combined industry experience of 17 years.  We aim to provide you with just the right depth of knowledge you need to have.

Kyle Murphy

Easy to read and very succinct ! Loved this course. Its better than most other courses  out there that are either half baked or way to detailed. 

Excellent,  time and money well spent on this. 

Richard Guajardo

Got what I was looking for. I used this for my interview prep with AWS. 

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Tammy Rogers 

Loved all the architecture diagrams. It really helped in understanding how each service would be used. 

Pretty detailed. 

Learn the A to Z of  Amazon Web Services  (AWS)

# What is Elastic Block Storage (EBS)?


 
EBS allows you to create persistent block-level storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances. Once attached you can create a file system on top of these volumes, run a database.

EBS is placed in a specific Availability zone where they are automatically replicated to protect you from the failure of a single component. You can also set up snapshots of your EBS to be durably stored in S3. 

# EBS use cases
Following are the use cases of EBS:
1. **OS** - Used for Boot/Root Volume, secondary Volumes. 
1. **Databases** – Scales with your performance needs.
1. **Enterprise applications** – Provides reliable block storage to run mission-critical applications.
1. **Business continuity** – Minimize data loss and recovery time by regularly backing up using EBS Snapshots.
1. **Applications** – Install and persist in any application.

# Different volumes types
1. General Purpose SSD (GP2) –
price and performance balance
1. Provisioned IOPS – SSD (IO1)
designed for high I/O applications. For example, large relational + NoSQL DB more than 10,000 IOPS

1. Throughput Optimized HDD (ST1)
Magnetic Storage = Old school physical spinning disks. 
For example, Big Data, & OS processing, data warehousing. Main thing to note is that this cannot be boot volumes.

1. Cold HDD (SC1) (magnetic Storage)
Lowest cost storage for infrequently accessed workloads.


Get introduced to AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and review its use cases.


Elastic Block Storage (EBS) 

Get introduced to AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and review its use cases.

Fundamental Building Blocks of AWS

AWS: Miscellaneous Services

AWS: Identity & Access Management (IAM)

AWS: Compute Offerings

AWS: Storage

AWS: Database Offerings

AWS: Routing

AWS: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

AWS: Application Services

AWS Well Architected Framework

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

What is Elastic Block Storage (EBS)?

EBS use cases