EC2 Instance Storage

Question 1

EBS

Answer 1

Elastic Block Storage are

• network drives attached to one EC2 instance at a time.
• they are mapped to a specific availability zone (AZ)
• you can use the EBS snapshot feature to make backups or to be able to transfer EBS volumes to another availability zone.

Question 2

AMI

Answer 2

Amazon machine images are used to create ready-to-use EC2 instances with the customizations we want.

Question 3

EC2 Image Builder

Answer 3

When you want to automate the process of building an AMI (amazon machine image) you can use the EC2 Image Builder to automatically build, test and distribute AMIs.

Question 4

EC2 instance store

Answer 4

High performance hard performance hardware disk attached to our EC2 instances but this time the disk is lost when our EC2 instance is stopped or terminated.

Question 5

EFS

Answer 5

Elastic File System is a network file system, that can be attached to 100s of instances in a region.

Question 6

EFS-IA

Answer 6

When you want to cost optimize your EFS you can use EFS-IA (Elastic File System - Infrequent Access) which allows to move a file that is more infrequently used to a lower tier.

Question 7

FSx for Windows

Answer 7

Network file system for Windows servers.

Question 8

FSx for Lustre

Answer 8

High Performance Computing on a Linux file system