Instance Storage

Question 1

EBS Volumes

Answer 1

Elastic Block Store

• network drives attached to one EC2 instance at a time
• MappedtoanAvailabilityZones
• Can use EBS Snapshots for backups / transferring EBS volumes across AZ

Question 2

AMI

Answer 2

create ready-to-use EC2 instances with our customizations

Question 3

EC2 Image Builder

Answer 3

automatically build, test and distribute AMIs

Question 4

EC2 Instance Store

Answer 4

• High performance hardware disk attached to our EC2 instance
• Lost if our instance is stopped / terminated

Question 5

EFS

Answer 5

network file system, can be attached to 100s of instances in a region

Question 6

EFS-IA

Answer 6

cost-optimized storage class for infrequent accessed files

Question 7

FSx for Winxows

Answer 7

Network File System for Windows servers

Question 8

FSx for Lustre

Answer 8

High Performance Computing Linux file system