Flexible Block Storage

FBS Features

Nobus FBS provides you the ability to create storage volumes and add them to Nobus FCS instances. Once added, you can create an archive system on top of these volumes, run a database, or use them in any other way you would use block storage. Nobus FBS volumes are placed in a specific Availability Zone where they are automatically replicated to protect you from the failure of a single component. All FBS volume types gives durable snapshot capabilities and are designed for 99.999% availability.

Nobus FBS gives a range of options that allow you to optimize storage performance and cost for your workload. These options has two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes (performance depends primarily on IOPS), and HDD-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, like log processing (performance depends primarily on MB/s).

SSD-backed volumes include the highest performance Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) for latency-sensitive transactional workloads and Standard SSD (gp2) that balance price and performance for a wide variety of transactional data. HDD-backed volumes include Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) for frequently accessed, throughput intensive workloads and the lowest cost Cold HDD (sc1) for less frequently accessed data.

Flexible Volumes is a feature of Nobus FBS that allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of live volumes with no downtime or performance impact. This allows you to easily right-size your deployment and adapt to performance changes. See storage types for more information.