Amazon Elastic Block Store

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Benefits of Elastic Block Store include the ability to scale fast for your most demanding, high-performance workloads, including mission-critical applications such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft products. It offers high availability, including replication within Availability Zones (AZs), and 99.999% durability with io2 Block Express volumes. Users can select the storage that best fits their workload, with volumes ranging from cost-effective dollar-per-GB to high performance with the fastest IOPS and throughput. Additionally, Amazon EBS provides secure encryption for your block storage resources without needing to build, maintain, and secure your own key management infrastructure. It also enables simple data protection for block storage data in the cloud, as well as on-premises block data using Amazon EBS Snapshots – a point-in-time copy that can be used to enable disaster recovery, migrate data across regions and accounts, and improve backup compliance. AWS further simplifies the lifecycle management of your snapshots through integration with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, which allows you to create policies so that you can automate multiple tasks including creation, deletion, retention, and sharing of snapshots.