AWS EBS Volume

An AWS EBS Volume is a block level storage volume (filesystem volume) provided by the AWS EBS service.

• Context:
  • It can be attached to an EC2 Instance.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an AWS EC2 Instance Store.
  • an AWS S3 Bucket.
• See: Network Attached Storage, Backed-up Filesystem, Filesystem.

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References

2012

• http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
  • QUOTE: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance. Amazon Elastic Block Store provides highly available, highly reliable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage.

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