Amazon Elastic Block Store

These options are divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes (performance depends primarily on IOPS), and disk-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, such as MapReduce and log processing (performance depends primarily on MB/s).

In a typical use case, using EBS would include formatting the device with a filesystem and mounting it.

EBS supports advanced storage features, including snapshotting and cloning.

[3] EBS volumes are built on replicated back end storage, so that the failure of a single component will not cause data loss.

[5] The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:[6] $0.065/provisioned IOPS $0.005/provisioned IOPS over 3000 Amazon EBS provides several features that assist with data management, backups, and performance tuning: