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Designing AWS Environments
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Designing AWS Environments

by Mitesh Soni, Wayde Gilchrist
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
174 pages
3h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Instance storage

Instance storage is SSD, or hard disk storage, that is installed in the host machine. Since it is local, you can get high disk throughput and high input/output per second, known as IOPS. However, one big caveat is the ephemeral, temporary nature of instance storage. When your instance is running, it is occupying a slot in the hypervisor of a host server. So, it has access to its share of the host machine's local storage.

However, when an instance is stopped or terminated, it is removed from the hypervisor slot, and that frees the slot for another instance to occupy it. So, to make sure that no one will be able to access your data, the local storage for your instance is wiped, and any data that you wrote to the volume is gone. ...

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