Amazon EBS Posts

Today, encrypting data at rest is crucial for enhancing security of our applications. Besides, it might be a requirement for your compliance regulations. Whatever the reason is, it is a best practice to encrypt your Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. In this post, I will show you how to encrypt an Amazon EBS volume using its integration with Amazon Key Management Service (KMS). Read more at Encrypting Amazon EBS Volumes post.

When you launch an Amazon EC2 instance, you define an Amazon EBS volume size. However, you may eventually need more disk space later for some reason. In this blog post, I will demonstrate an example of how you can increase the root volume size of an EC2 Linux instance. Read more at Increasing Root Volume Size of an EBS Backed EC2 Instance post.