AWS Storage, storage

How AWS snapshot works? Is Incremental?

    How AWS snapshot works? Is Incremental? *Normally when you take backup of Amazon EC2 EBS volume, backup  will be stored in S3 called “Snapshot” *AWS users will not have any visibility on backend process.These backup are not visible as S3 bucket formats eventhough its stored   in S3. You can only view snapshot details in console *You can back…

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AWS Storage

AWS EFS How to create and configure ?

    AWS EFS How to create and configure ? What is EFS? *Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) fully-managed service from AWS . *File Storage service from AWS. *concurrently-accessible storage for up to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. *Works with NFS protocal . Its similar to traditional NAS file system storage .Like same NAS share can be mounted on multiple Linux/Unix…

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AWS Storage, Compute, EC2

What is EBS optimized instance in AWS? 

What is EBS optimized  instance in AWS?    Normally not all the instances EBS optimized instance type in AWS. Only specific ec2 instance types are EBS optimized. This will trigger another question ,how EBS disks are connecting with ec2? Through ec2 instance network cards only. So your network traffic and EBS data traffic will use same NIC card. But the…

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What is Instance store disk in AWS? 

  What is Instance store disk in AWS? An instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance Not an  normal EBS storage type Temporary storage device , once you stop and start the instance or terminate the instance all the data will be erased.The data in an instance store persists only during the lifetime of its associated instance. If you reboot…

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