AWS Storage Blog
Author: Jens-Uwe Walther
Jens-Uwe Walther is a Senior Specialist Technical Account Manager for Containers at Amazon Web Services with 28 years of professional experience in IT based in Jena, Germany. He is passionate about Kubernetes and helping customers building container solutions on Amazon EKS. In his free time, he loves playing guitar, taking photographs and traveling with his wife into the wilderness.
Improve compute utilization with more Amazon EBS volume attachments on 7th generation Amazon EC2 instances
For many stateful containerized applications, such as those using Kubernetes orchestration, each stateful pod (the smallest deployable container object) may require dedicated persistent storage. A block storage solution is a good fit due to its high performance, low latency, and persistence attributes. If a compute instance has more compute resources to spare, you can only […]
Simplifying Amazon EBS volume migration and modification on Kubernetes using the EBS CSI Driver
UPDATE 05/23/25: There is a new way to modify volumes, refer to this blog post that covers the details. Enterprises running critical applications in containers may require access to a persistent storage layer that extends beyond the lifetime of a container instance. A block storage solution such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is a […]