Tag: ebs

Comparing EFS and EBS

EBS (Elastic Block Storage) and EFS (Elastic File Storage) are two types of storage offered by Amazon. In this post, I present a summary of the differences in a table…

AWS EBS Snapshot

EBS snapshots are a backup feature provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. An EBS snapshot is a point-in-time copy of an EBS volume, which…

Different Storage Options for EC2

Object and block storage are two different types of storage used in computing. Object storage is a type of data storage architecture that manages data as objects. In object storage,…

EBS: Amazon Elastic Block Storage

To understand Elastic Block Storage, we need to first understand what block storage is and how if differs from object storage. Block storage breaks data into block and then stores…

Amazon Storage Options

Amazon offers a few storage options: File Storage – use EFS Block Storage – use EBS and EC2 Object Storage – use S3 EFS works very much like your computer’s…