Lab 9:Creating ebs,attach and detach the volumn to the instance

                                  Lab 9:Creating ebs,attach and detach the volumn to the instance

What is EBS?

It is storage service provided by the amazon cloud,it provided block level storage for use use with an EC2 instance.

Why we use?

Data Availability,data presistency,you can take snapshot also.

Lab:

Creating an EBS volume

On EC2 dashboard

Choose Elastic Block Storage

Select volumes

Click on Create 

In the creating volume dialog puropse ssd

volume types---------------->Select geeral purpose ssd

Size------------------------>select the size you want to create 

Availibility Zone ------------>as per requirements

Thoughput(MB/s)----------->not applicable

Leave remaining as defaults

Then click on Create 

In name column give the name to created volume

Now attach the volume to the instance:

Select the volume you created 

click on action

Select attach volume

Select the instance which should be in the same zone which you created the volume in the same zone

Click on attach

To detach the volumn

On EC2 dashboard

Choose Elastic Block Volume

Select the volume to be detach

Select Yes detach

To delete the volume

Select the volume you want  to be delete

In actions dropdown select delete volume

Select Yes delete

Reference:https://n2ws.com/blog/how-to-guides/connect-aws-ebs-volume-another-instance