Elastic Block Store Quiz
A company has a set of Linux based instances on their On-premises infrastructure. They want to have an equivalent block storage device on AWS which can be used to store the same datasets as on the Linux based instances. As an architect, which of the following storage devices would you recommend?
A. AWS EBS
B. AWS S3
C. AWS EFS
D. AWS DynamoDB
A. AWS EBS
AWS Documentation mentions the following on EBS Volumes:
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 Instances. EBS Volumes are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance that is in the same Availability Zone. EBS Volumes that are attached to an EC2 Instance are exposed as storage volumes that persist independently from the life of the instance.
For more information on Amazon EBS, please visit the following URL:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AmazonEBS.html
