Posted On: Jan 18, 2023

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs in the AWS Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions to create EBS snapshots of their block storage data regardless of where it resides, including on-premises. 

Customers can use EBS direct APIs to backup their on-premises workloads to EBS snapshots that can be quickly and efficiently recovered into EBS volumes for use cases like disaster recovery. EBS direct APIs can also be used to write data directly to your snapshots, read data on your snapshots, and identify the differences or changes between two snapshots.

EBS direct APIs are available in all public AWS Regions including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about EBS direct APIs, see the technical documentation and pricing pages on EBS direct APIs for EBS Snapshots.