Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) | Web Hosting Demystified

Finally, persistent storage for your Amazon EC2 instance. Amazon has released EBS, Amazon Elastic Block Store, which fixes the only stumbling block to using Amazon EC2.

For a while now Amazon has been defending their computing cloud web services but the voices complaining against the lack of persistent storage has been growing louder and louder each day. Until now there was no way to save and retrieve data if your EC2 instance was unexpectedly shutdown. Well, with EBS, this issue is a thing of the past.

You can now create your own Elastic Block Store for your instance and can use it to persist your data in any form you choose including maintaining your databases. Amazon has released a full set of API’s that allow you to create, retrieve, attach and remove an elastic block store (EBS) and keep your application data safe and secure.

You can create Amazon Elastic Block volume from anywhere between 1GB to 1TB. You can even create multiple EBS volumes and link it all to one instance. Creating a data snapshot and maintaining it in Amazon S3 is the best way to utilize all that Amazon has to offer.

Amazon Elastic Block Store is now in beta and is available to the public. I’m sure there will be a few issues/bugs to be ironed out but as before Amazon seems to be working hard to keep their web services framework the preferred destination for all application developers. The EBS feature only highlights that point even more.

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