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EBS: A Regular Drive

EBS: A Regular Drive

Learn about the details of Amazon's block storage, EBS.

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Elastic Block Store, or EBS, is AWS’s implementation of block storage as part of Amazon EC2.

EBS is a network block storage, meaning that we are not directly accessing the underlying hardware, but a virtual block volume provided over the network. Apart from that, it behaves exactly as a physical volume like the hard drives or solid-state disks in our computers.

Here’s just a quick recap of EBS:

  • EBS is block storage integrated with EC2. EBS volumes can be easily mounted to EC2 instances.
  • EBS volumes are independent of EC2 instances. The DeleteOnTermination property decides if they will be deleted during termination of the EC2 instance
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