25.2 Amazon EBS – Elastic Block Store


Amazon
Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent
block
storage
volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each
Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to
protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability.
Amazon EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-latency performance needed to
run your workloads. With Amazon EBS, you can scale your usage up or down within
minutes—all while paying a low price for only what you provision