Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a scalable, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon EC2 instances, providing persistent, raw block-level storage volumes that can be attached like physical drives. Launched by AWS in 2008, it enables users to store data…

Key facts

First appeared: 2008
Category: technology
Problem solved: Providing persistent, resizable block storage for EC2 instances that survives instance failures, unlike ephemeral instance store volumes which lose data on stop or termination, enabling reliable databases, applications, and data persistence in the cloud.
Platforms: Amazon Nitro System, AWS (all regions), Amazon EC2

Related technologies

Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Amazon RDS

Notable users

Amazon.com
Dropbox
Apple
Netflix
Zynga