Amazon Storage as a Service

IaaS Server as a Service Storage as a Service Connectivtiy as a Service

We used Amazon EC2 (Server as a Service) to create a virtual web server. But the server instance is not persisted. We would like to address this issue by using Amazon’s Storage as a Service in conjunction with Amazon’s Server as a Service

Amazon’s Storage as a Service Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS): Features EBS can provide an persistant storage to an EC2 instance Safety & Replication: “EBS volume data is replicated across multiple servers” Large data storage capacity: An EBS volume can be up to 1TB. You can attach multiple EBS volume to your instance (for this course, we only use a capacity allowed by the free usage tier). Instance type portability: An EBS volume can be easily ported to another instance Improved performance: EBS IO rates can be even faster than local disk IO Fast and easy backups

Steps to use EBS 1. Create a volume with a proper size (Say 20GB for this course). Attach this EBS volume to your EC2 instance Format your EBS volume Mount the volume Move data to this volume Create snapshots of the EBS volume Instantiate new volume from a snapshots

Create EBS Volume

Create EBS Volume

Create EBS Volume

Attach EBS Volume

Attach EBS Volume

Format EBS Volume #sudo mkfs –t ext4 /dev/sdf

Mount EBS volume #sudo mkdir /disk1 #sudo mount /dev/sdf /disk1 #echo "/dev/sdf /disk1 ext3 defaults 0 0" | sudo tee –a /etc/fstab

Create snapshot of the EBS Volume

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon S3 provides storage as a service to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. Figure from docs.amazonwebservices.com