AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro waitlist, EBS Volume Clones, EC2 Capacity Manager, and more (October 20, 2025)
I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]
Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.
AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones
Amazon Prime Day 2025 achieved record-breaking sales with enhanced AI shopping features, while AWS infrastructure handled unprecedented volumes of data—including 1.7 trillion Lambda invocations per day, DynamoDB peaking at 151 million requests per second, and a 77% increase in Fargate container tasks—showcasing the massive scalability required to power the four-day shopping event.
Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume
Amazon EBS introduces a new Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization to accelerate data transfer from EBS snapshots to new EBS volumes by specifying a consistent volume initialization rate, improving workflow efficiency and predictability.
Time-based snapshot copy for Amazon EBS
With time-based copying, critical EBS snapshots and AMIs can now meet crucial RPOs by specifying exact completion durations from 15 minutes to 48 hours for disaster recovery, testing, development, and operations.
How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales
Dive into the numbers from Amazon’s record-breaking Prime Day 2024, from AI chip deployment to the staggering transaction volumes across AWS services like Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, CloudFront, and more.
Amazon RDS now supports io2 Block Express volumes for mission-critical database workloads
March 7, 2024: Post updated to change GB to GiB. March 8, 2024: Post updated to reflect correct region availability. Today, I am pleased to announce the availability of Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) io2 Block Express storage volumes for all database engines in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS provides you the flexibility to […]
Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads
Today we are announcing that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), making it easier to run a wider range of data processing workloads. You can provision Amazon EBS storage for your ECS tasks running on AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) without […]