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What is EBS Direct Acquisition​

EBS Direct acquisition is a method for acquiring EC2 instances and associated volumes.

Why use EBS Direct Acquisition​

The EBS direct acquisition feature significantly improves the capture speed of disks, and less permissions, than the alternate method of creating a volume and attaching it to an instance.

Prerequisites​

Enable EBS Direct Acquisition​

To enable EBS Direct Acquisition (Admin required):

  1. Go to Settings > Experiments.
  2. Enable EBS Direct Acquisitions.

EBS Direct Acquisition

Enable Deployed Workers​

  1. Navigate to Settings > Advanced (Admin required)
  2. Enable Deployed Workers (This is needed for full acquisition)

EBS Workers

Roles Required​

  • ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks
  • ebs:ListChangedBlocks
  • ebs:GetSnapshotBlock

Steps to Import using EBS Direct Acquisition​

  1. On your investigation click import.
  2. Select cloud from the list of providers

EBS Providers

  1. Select AWS

EBS Cloud Account

  1. Select Access method

EBS Access Method

  1. Select EC2

EBS EC2

  1. Select your region of choice

EBS Region

  1. Select Full acquisition

EBS Full Acquisition

  1. Review your options then click continue to finish

Data Flow Diagram​

EBS Direct Acquisition