Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

© Brian Beach, Steven Armentrout, Rodney Bozo, Emmanuel Tsouris 2019

B. Beach et al.Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4850-8_4

4. Elastic Block Storage

Brian Beach¹ , Steven Armentrout², Rodney Bozo³ and Emmanuel Tsouris⁴

(1)

Raleigh, NC, USA

(2)

Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA

(3)

Sterling, VA, USA

(4)

North Bend, WA, USA

 

In the last chapter, we learned how to launch and manage instances. In this chapter, we will focus on the volumes, or disks, attached to the instance. We will learn how to customize and add additional volumes at launch. Then we will look at modifying the volumes after launch. This chapter will also cover snapshots. Snapshots are a point-in-time copy of a volume, often used for backups. Snapshots can be ...