Before demo lets first discuss why another storage solution when we already have S3 i.e Simple Storage Service and EBS i.e Elastic Block Store. What EFS i.e Elastic File System brings on to the table which S3 and EBS are not able to provide ? We are going to limit this post with how much…
In this tutorial we are going to Explore and setup extra volume to EC2 instance Step 1 – Login to AWS console, launch EC2 launch wizard page. Step 2 – Launch and Ec2 instance – traverse to Storage selection block. It will look something like this, and default view where an EC2 is having root…
What data is stored in ephemeral storage of an Amazon EC2 instance? Anything that is not stored on an ebs volume that is mounted to the instance will be lost. For instance, if you mount your ebs volume at /mystuff, then anything not in /mystuff will be lost. If you don’t mount an ebs volume…
1 GB to store in US-East-1: (Updated at 2016.dec.20) Glacier: $0.004/Month (Note: Major price cut in 2016) S3: $0.023/Month S3-IA (announced in 2015.09): $0.0125/Month (+$0.01/gig retrieval charge) EBS: $0.045-0.1/Month (depends on speed – SSD or not) + IOPS costs EFS: $0.3/Month Further storage options, which may be used for temporary storing data while/before processing it: SNS…