Amazon Elastic Block Store
Easy to use, high performance block storage at any scale
What is Amazon EBS?
Amazon EBS allows you to create storage volumes and attach them to Amazon EC2 instances. Once attached, you can create a file system on top of these volumes, run a database, or use them just like you would use block storage. Amazon EBS volumes are placed in a specific Availability Zone, where they are automatically replicated to protect from the failure of a single component. All EBS volume types offer durable snapshot capabilities and are designed for high availability.
Benefits of Amazon EBS
Scale fast
High performance
Optimize storage and cost
Secure
Simple data protection
Use cases
Build your mission-critical, I/O intensive applications in the cloud
Migrate mid-range, on-premises storage area network (SAN) workloads to the cloud. Attach high-performance and high-availability block storage for mission-critical applications.
Run relational or NoSQL databases
Deploy and scale your choice of databases, including SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and MongoDB.
Right-size your big data analytics engines
Easily resize clusters for big data analytics engines, such as Hadoop and Spark, and freely detach and reattach volumes.