AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Category: Technical How-to

How to Build Sparse EBS Volumes for Fun and Easy Snapshotting

By Ian Scofield, Partner Solutions Architects – AWS By Mike Ruiz, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS If you are familiar with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and the EBS volume snapshotting process, you may know that we recommend initializing – that is, reading every block – on volumes that have been created from snapshots […]