Amazon EBS in 4 minutes (Lab walkthrough)
Tags: aws, ebs, cloud, cloudskills
Published: 2022-07-15 11:21:28

On this article, we would demystify Amazon EBS in less than 4 minutes.
Quick theoretical understanding of this service, then a step by step laboratory walkthrough.

### What is Amazon EBS?
Amazon EBS is an acronym for Amazon Elastic Block Store, an easy to use, high performance block storage at any scale.

This high-performance block-storage service designed for [Amazon EC2 instances](https://dev.to/ukemzyskywalker/the-power-of-aws-ec2-part-1-1h3b), is a physical hard drive that is attached to increase storage.

#### There are several EBS volume types under these categories

- Solid State Drives (SSD) 
- Hard Disk Drives (HDD).

#### Benefits of using Elastic Block Store

- Data stored on Elastic Block Store will continue to persists even after the EC2 instance it is attached to is terminated.
- It can automatically replicate within its availability zone.
![taste](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/e9cca1letix1btlasz36.gif)

Thats a taste of theoretical understanding, very dry.

With no further adieu, let get to the meat of this post.

### Lab Walkthrough (create an EBS Volume)

#### Step 1
Login to your AWS console, on the top right of the screen, navigate to **Service** > **Compute** > **EC2**


![Navigate to EC2](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/48msvua0pa1okozk3tjm.JPG)

#### Step 2
You are on the EC2 Dashboard, on the left navigation pane, scroll down to** Elastic Block Store**, click on **Volumes**.

![EBS Dashboard](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/m1w4bnsh20iak8fqy16t.JPG)

#### Step 3
On the volumes dashboard, click on **Create Volume**

![create volumes](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0leko8zq1lnok17plvik.JPG)


#### Step 4 Volume Settings
On Create Volumes, for volume setting use these values:
Volume type: General Purpose SSD (gp2)
Size GB: 4
Availability Zone:  your choice, but I would use _Us-east-1_ for this exercise.

![Volume Settings](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7ha07ifw3ckxzxdba8nb.JPG)

#### Step 5 Tags
Use these values:
Key:  name
Value: Test Storage

Click on **Create Volume**

![Volume tags](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kmnkpohqi1a51zxqteho.JPG)

#### Step 6 Volume Dashboard
This dashboard displays a list of created volumes in this availability zone (us-east-1), with the volume state.

Click on the newly created volume ID

![Volume Dashboard](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/opb6p11icm9l8ligh81g.JPG)

#### Step 7 Volume Status Checks
scroll down to status check, displayed is the Volume status, I/O status, Availability Zone, and some other relevant information.

![Volume Status Check](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7qusjdwcdavvn7kakxik.JPG)

#### Step 8 Monitoring
Click on monitoring, displayed is an extensive metrics, and applied graph transformations, provided, by Cloud Watch.
I would cover Cloud Watch in a future article.


![Monitoring](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/wnk8cvis0urxcheaa820.JPG)

#### Step 9 Tags.
Displayed, Key: name | value : Test Storage

![Tags](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/5pk8evpjck8z2axjfvol.JPG)

THE END

You have successfully created an Amazon EBS Volume.

Call yourself a Rock Star, Walk Like a Boss.


![Walk like a boss](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/485ft6vidlvhrobhy6za.gif)