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Configuring ECS Tasks with EBS Block Storage Volumes

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Students: 30

Rating: 5/5

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Description

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to configure Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Tasks to leverage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for backend storage. A 3D Globe web application will be used to demonstrate this architecture and configuration.

Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service offered by AWS, designed to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. It allows users to run Docker containers on a managed cluster of EC2 instances or AWS Fargate, abstracting away the underlying infrastructure complexity. ECS enables users to define task definitions, which specify the Docker containers to run, their configurations, and how they are linked together. With features like automatic load balancing, service discovery, and integration with other AWS services, ECS provides a scalable and efficient platform for deploying containerized workloads.

Amazon EBS offers durable, high-performance storage volumes for use with compute resources such as ECS. EBS volumes are highly scalable and can be easily attached to ECS tasks, providing flexible storage options for various applications. EBS offers various types of volumes optimized for different workloads, including General Purpose SSD, Provisioned IOPS SSD, and Throughput Optimized HDD. EBS can be configured to provide snapshots for backup, encryption for data security, and high availability through replication across multiple Availability Zones. EBS provides consistent and low-latency performance, making it an essential component for many AWS-based architectures.