Category: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots offer the ability to back up the data on your EBS volumes to Amazon S3 by taking point-in-time snapshots. If you run your Oracle Databases on Amazon EC2 and use EBS volumes, you may be using EBS snapshots to meet your backup requirements. Prior to May 2019, you had […]

In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we discuss the elastic volumes feature for Amazon EBS and how it works with Oracle database storage layouts. We discuss elastic volumes with databases that use operating-system file systems and that use Logical Volume Managers (LVM) for database storage management. In this post, we discuss the […]

In part 1 of this blog series, we discuss the elastic volumes feature. We also discuss Oracle database storage layouts for simple databases that use a single Amazon EBS volume without LVM for database storage. In this post, part 2 of the series, we discuss the storage layout for Amazon EC2 for Oracle databases that […]

Last year, we launched a new Amazon EBS feature called elastic volumes. Using elastic volumes for Amazon EBS, you can increase your EBS volume size or change IOPS or volume type while the volume is in use. You can make this change without having an impact on operations. In this series of three blog posts, […]