Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)


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.