October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
Up until now, we have exposed how to create machines and networking infrastructure in AWS. One important thing when building applications is the storage of the data. By default, when we launch a machine in EC2, there are two types of storage that can be associated with the machine in the root volume in order to run the operating system:
Instance storage backed images
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage backed images
The first one, instance storage backed images, relies on the storage associated with the image to mount and run the root volume. This means that the data stored in the image will be lost once the machine is terminated (these type of images do not support the stop action; they just support ...
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