October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
17h 33m
English
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Chapter 9. Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store
This chapter covers
- Attaching persistent storage volumes to EC2 instance
- Using temporary storage attached to the host system
- Backing up volumes
- Testing and tweaking volume performance
- Differences between persistent (EBS) and temporary volumes (instance store)
Imagine your task is to migrate an enterprise application from being hosted on-premises to AWS. Typically, legacy applications read and write files from a file system. Switching to object storage, as described in the previous chapter, is therefore not possible. Fortunately, AWS offers good old block-level storage as well, allowing you to migrate your legacy application without the need for expensive modifications.
Block-level ...