Amazon AWS / EBS Block Device Backend¶

The AWS backend uses EBS volumes as the storage for datasets. This backend can be used when Flocker dataset agents are run on EC2 instances. The agent.yml configuration file for the AWS backend should contain the following:

dataset:
    backend: "aws"
    region: "<region slug; for example, us-west-1>"
    zone: "<availability zone slug; for example, us-west-1a>"
    access_key_id: "<AWS API key identifier>"
    secret_access_key: "<Matching AWS API key>"

Make sure that the region and zone match each other and that both match the region and zone where the Flocker agent nodes run. AWS must be able to attach volumes created in that availability zone to your Flocker nodes.

In addition to the mandatory properties shown, there are some optional properties:

session_token¶

An AWS session token. This allows cross-account access. It is mainly useful for testing since session tokens only last for a short time. For more information on when session tokens are required, see the AWS instructions for Temporary Security Credentials.

validate_region¶

Boolean indicating whether to validate the supplied region. This defaults to True. It is set to False for internal testing.

The Amazon AWS / EBS driver maintained by ClusterHQ provides Flocker Storage Profiles. The three available profiles are:

• Gold: EBS Provisioned IOPS / API named io1. Configured for maximum IOPS for its size - 30 IOPS/GB, with a maximum of 20,000 IOPS.
• Silver: EBS General Purpose SSD / API named gp2.
• Bronze: EBS Magnetic / API named standard.

If no profile is specified, then a bronze volume is created, which is consistent with previous behavior.