As storage technology has evolved from traditional tape based storage, to file-level systems to block storage, a number of vendor and storage products have cropped up. In a fairly crowded storage marketplace, the usage of Amazon Elastic Block Storage or EBS has grown rather quickly, and there are a number of reasons for this. For those still living in the tape storage world, here is a quick run of Amazon EBS and how this persistent storage option in the AWS Cloud is changing the dynamics of the storage marketplace globally.
EBS offers comes as an attached block-level storage with every EC2 instance, and has the same infrastructural strengths that AWS offers – including massive scalability, simple provisioning, easy configuration, auto scaling and load balancing. EBS volumes are available as SSD (maximum IOPS, for transactional workloads) and HDD (high latency, for large static workloads). AWS has made fast and significant developments across its portfolio of storage products, with EBS especially going through rapid evolution, in terms of new features and capabilities.
Here are some of the key features of EBS that differentiate it from other virtualized block storage options in the marketplace.
While AWS provides a number of storage options such as S3, EFS and EBS, the lowest priced storage option (with fairly high IOPS) is EBS. This makes EBS the best option for backup and retrieval solutions. NTT Comm. – Netmagic has significant experience in EBS setup for storage and backups, and also partners with leading Backup-as-a-Service solution providers like Commvault, Veeam, and many more. Organizations that wish to migrate their existing backup and retrieval environment to Amazon EBS need to work closely with leaders like AWS, Netmagic and N2WS for optimized, cost-effective solutions.
Pankaj Nath
Vice President & Cloud Practise Head, NTT Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure, India
Pankaj is the Vice President & Cloud Practise Head at NTT Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure, India. An accomplished Information Technology Strategist with over 18 years of experience, he is passionate about crafting innovative business solutions. He joined erstwhile Netmagic in 2008 and has been instrumental in implementing competitive and profitable pricing models and is committed to driving effective marketing promotions to drive revenue for Hybrid Cloud services.