Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a block storage service provided by AWS. EBS volumes are the basic unit in EBS that offer persistent block-level storage options that can be mounted to EC2 instances, offering high-performance and low-latency storage options. Let’s dive in deep to learn more about EBS volumes.

EBS is a zonal service, which means it is deployed in an availability zone (AZ) in a region. EBS volumes have a built-in resilience when a volume fails; however, when an AZ fails, volumes in it can suffer.

EBS volumes

EBS volumes are like hard drives that can be mounted to the EC2 instances for additional storage. We can mount multiple volumes to a single instance. By default, a root volume is attached to the EC2 instance, which is not persistent. This means we lose the data in the default volume as soon as we terminate the instance. Any additional EBS volume mounted to the EC2 instance retains the data independent of the EC2 ...