Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Primer

Discover high-performance block storage with Amazon EBS

Explore how Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides scalable block storage for Amazon EC2 by examining volume types, technical specifications, pricing, monitoring, AWS integrations, and snapshot capabilities that support high-performance and resilient workloads.

Apply Amazon EBS to resilient cloud workloads

Discover how Amazon EBS supports reliable cloud applications through volume management, snapshot strategies, monitoring techniques, and storage options that enable scalable, cost-effective, and resilient workloads.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

This course is ideal for cloud architects, storage architects, developers and operations engineers

This course is ideal for cloud architects, storage architects, developers and operations engineers

• Explain Amazon EBS features and benefits.
• Discuss common and practical use cases for Amazon EBS.
• Differentiate between Amazon EBS volume types.
• Describe the key Amazon EBS technical options and specifications.
• Outline the Amazon EBS pricing structure.
• Summarize the relationship between Amazon EBS and other Amazon Web Services (AWS) services.
• Explain how to monitor Amazon EBS volumes.
• Implement and manage Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots.