AWS EBS
AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent, block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes function like raw, unformatted hard drives that can be attached to a running instance, offering high performance, low latency, and durability for a wide range of…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2008
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- The fundamental problem AWS EBS solved was the ephemeral nature of Amazon EC2 instance store volumes, which caused all data to be lost when an EC2 instance was terminated or stopped. This made it impossible to reliably run stateful applications like databases or enterprise applications on EC2 without complex, external storage solutions. EBS provided persistent, durable, and highly available block storage that could be easily attached, detached, and snapshot, decoupling compute from storage life cycles.
- Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Airbnb
- Capital One
- Netflix
- Slack
- Intuit
- Epic Games
- Nasdaq
- Lyft