Amazon Elastic Block Store

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Short description: Cloud-based raw storage service


Amazon Elastic Block Store

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).[1] It is one of the two block-storage options offered by AWS, with the other being the EC2 Instance Store.[2]

Amazon EBS provides a range of options for storage performance and cost. These options are divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes (performance depends primarily on IOPS), and disk-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, such as MapReduce and log processing (performance depends primarily on MB/s).

Use case

In a typical use case, using EBS would include formatting the device with a filesystem and mounting it. EBS supports advanced storage features, including snapshotting and cloning. As of September 2020, EBS volumes can be up to 2 TiB in size using the MBR partitioning scheme, and up to 16 TiB using the GPT partitioning scheme.[3]

EBS volumes are built on replicated back end storage, so that the failure of a single component will not cause data loss.

History

EBS was introduced by Amazon in August 2008.[4] As of March 2018 30 GB of free space was included in the free tier of Amazon Web Services 2017.[5]

Volume types

The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:[6]

Solid state drives (SSD) Hard disk drives (HDD)
Volume type EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) (since 2012) [7] EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2)[lower-alpha 1] EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) Cold HDD (sc1)
Short description Highest performance SSD volume designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads General Purpose SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads Lowest cost SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads Low cost HDD volume designed for frequently accessed, throughput intensive workloads Lowest cost HDD volume designed for less frequently accessed workloads
Use cases I/O-intensive NoSQL and relational databases Boot volumes, low-latency interactive apps, dev & test Boot volumes, low-latency interactive apps, dev & test Big data, data warehouses, log processing Colder data requiring fewer scans per day
API name io1 gp2 gp3 st1 sc1
Volume size 4 GiB - 16 TiB 1 GiB - 16 TiB 1 GiB - 16 TiB 500 GiB - 16 TiB 500 GiB - 16 TiB
Max IOPS[lower-alpha 2]/volume 64,000 16,000 16,000 500 250
Max throughput/volume 1000 MB/s 250 MB/s 1000 MB/s 500 MB/s 250 MB/s
Max IOPS/instance 260,000 260,000 260,000 260,000 260,000
Max throughput/instance 7,500 MB/s 7,500 MB/s 7,500 MB/s 7,500 MB/s 7,500 MB/s
Price $0.125/GB-month

$0.065/provisioned IOPS

$0.10/GB-month $0.08/GB-month

$0.005/provisioned IOPS over 3000

$0.045/GB-month $0.025/GB-month
Dominant performance attribute IOPS IOPS IOPS MB/s MB/s
  1. ↑ Default volume type
  2. ↑ io1/gp2 based on 16 KiB I/O size, st1/sc1 based on 1 MiB I/O size

Features

Amazon EBS provides several features that assist with data management, backups, and performance tuning:

  • The Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is an automated mechanism that can back up data from EBS volumes, creating and deleting EBS snapshots on a predefined schedule.[8]
  • Elastic Volumes makes it possible to adapt volume size to an application's current needs, using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda to automate volume changes.
  • Amazon EBS Encryption encrypts data at rest for EBS volumes and snapshots, without having to manage a separate secure key infrastructure.
  • EBS volume tagging makes it possible to find and filter EBS resources on the Amazon Console and CLI.[9]
  • Software-level RAID arrays make it possible to create groups of EBS volumes with high performance network throughput between them, using the standard RAID protocol.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "DB Instance Storage - Amazon Relational Database Service". https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_Storage.html. 
  2. ↑ "EC2 Instance Store vs EBS". May 31, 2022. https://riyanchristy.goseeq.net/ec2-instance-store-vs-ebs/. 
  3. ↑ "Constraints on the size and configuration of an EBS volume". Amazon Web Services Documentation. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/volume_constraints.html. 
  4. ↑ "Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data". Amazon Web Services Blog. August 20, 2008. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/08/amazon-elastic.html. 
  5. ↑ "AWS Free Tier". https://aws.amazon.com/free/. 
  6. ↑ "Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) – Details – Amazon Web Services (AWS)" (in en-US). https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/. 
  7. ↑ "Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS". https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2012/07/31/announcing-provisioned-iops-for-amazon-ebs/. 
  8. ↑ "Amazon EBS Features". Amazon Web Services. https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/features/. 
  9. ↑ "7 Little-Known Amazon EBS Features You Should Be Using". Sand Hill. January 17, 2020. https://sandhill.com/article/7-little-known-amazon-ebs-features-you-should-be-using/. 
  10. ↑ "AWS EBS: A Complete Guide and Five Functions You Should Start Using". Cloud Central Blog. June 4, 2019. https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/ebs-volumes-5-lesser-known-functions. 

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