Introduction to Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
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Time
19 hours 19 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
20
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>> Hey everybody, welcome back.
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In this lecture we're going to talk about
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the introduction to Elastic Block Storage,
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otherwise known as EBS.
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The learning objectives for this lesson are
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going to meet to define what EBS volumes are,
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discuss the functionality of them,
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discuss the service and how it
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works in correlation with EC2.
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Elastic Block Storage, otherwise known as EBS is
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a network drive that's attached to EC2 instances.
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I'm going to go ahead and pause right there.
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This is the hard drive or the solid-state drive
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that you are attaching to your virtual machine.
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That is what EBS is.
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Now, EBS or the block storage
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is something that you typically stand
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up when you are configuring your EC2 instance.
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But when you terminate your EC2 instance,
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there's still the possibility that
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your block storage will stay alive.
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If that is the case, you're going to continue
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to be charged because you're
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using the actual storage capacity from Amazon.
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If you are terminating your EC2 instance,
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makes sure that you are terminating
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your EBS volumes otherwise
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you will continue to get charged.
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If that's intentional, you want to keep it alive,
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great and you want to keep your data mounted
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that's okay or not mounted,
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but all you know persistence if you want to keep it
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alive in the Cloud, that is fine.
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But if your intention is to
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eradicate everything because you're done with it,
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you don't want to get charged for something you're
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not using then make
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sure you are deleting your EBS volume.
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That's the second bullet there.
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When you are mounting
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EBS volume to an instance that is
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the only instance that it can be mounted to.
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You can move it,
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you can mount it to a different instance,
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but you cannot mount
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the same instance to multiple EC2 instances.
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Let me take a step back and
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maybe rephrase this in another way that might make sense.
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One EBS volume to one EC2 instance.
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One EC2 instance on the other hand
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can have two EBS volumes.
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That is okay so that's correct.
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One EC2 instance can have more than one EBS volume.
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However, an EBS volume can
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only be connected to one instance at a time.
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If you think about it in the sense of your computer,
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if you install a hard drive to your computer, great,
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you can install more drives to
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your computer as needed but you
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cannot install one hard drive to more than one computer.
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That's not possible. Your EBS volumes
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are bound to the specific availability zone.
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You can define which one you want them to be in.
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That being said, they're going to be bound to
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whatever region you are in
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so if you're switching regions,
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you're not going to be able to access your EBS volume.
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It stays within the region and the AZ
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that's it was originally configured in.
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EBS volumes or network drives.
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They communicate to the instance over the network over
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the VPC that you
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create or the default one that's created for you.
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They can present some latency so there may be some delay
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there and they can't be
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detached and reattached to other instances,
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provisions, capacity and gigabytes and IOPS so
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we can do billing for provision capacity.
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You can alter how you're utilizing the EBS volumes.
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You can pay a little bit more to get more persistence,
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network bandwidth, more like steady all the way through,
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making sure there's no delay
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so as to reduce some of that latency there
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and there is a capability of increasing the size of
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your EBS volume as needed as
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well so you can scale up and down.
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A second ago, I verbally describes how
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this relationship between EBS and EC2 works.
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I wanted to visually describe this to
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you here. That's what we have right here.
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As you can see,
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we have one EBS volume connected to
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one EC2 instance right there.
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We also have two EBS volumes
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connected to one EC2 instance.
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One EBS volume cannot connect to two EC2 instances
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simultaneously but when EC2 instance
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can connect to more than one EBS volume.
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Is the same way with your computer.
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You have a computer, it has to
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have one hard drive at least.
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That's actually our first bullet here.
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Each EC2 instance requires
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at least one EBS volume
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requires one hard drive or one solid EC2 drive.
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That's to run the operating system,
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that's installed programs,
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has to have files, all that good stuff.
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But if you need to expand on that,
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you can either scale your EBS volume
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to increase it or you can add
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more EBS volumes to
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it and you'll have more storage volumes.
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Just like if you wanted to pop in an extra drive and you
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have now a D drive or an F drive or an E drive,
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you can do that just like you would with your computer.
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EC2 instances can have
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more than one EBS volume attached. We just set that.
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EBS volumes don't have to be
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attached to an EC2 instance. We also said that.
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Makes sure that if you do not want to be
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charged for using that data,
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there you terminate your EBS volumes
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when you terminate your EC2 instance.
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To summarize, we did an introduction on
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Elastic Block Storage Service and we
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discussed the EBS functionality and its characteristics.
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Hopefully this was helpful and made sense.
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If not, please feel free to
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reach out to me and ask me any questions.
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If not, if you're all good to go,
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then let's go jump into the next lecture.
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I'll see you there.
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