Selecting the Appropriate Storage Platform

In this section of the chapter, you will learn about the various storage options that AWS provides for your applications, both in terms of migration and modernization. The services are discussed in detail in the following subsections.

EBS multi-attach

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is perhaps the most commonly used storage service for migrating workloads to the AWS cloud. The service provides block-level storage volumes that you can mount to EC2 instances just as you would mount a physical drive to a physical server. Once mounted, you can choose to format them as per the required file system and store application data on them as required. The best part of having an EBS volume is that it can persist independently from an EC2 instance as well, which comes in handy if your EC2 instance were to get corrupted or terminated accidentally.

AWS recently announced the availability of EBS multi-attach that allows you to attach a single provisioned...