Looking for dependable storage for your Amazon EC2 instance? You wouldn’t need to look further; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) can save your day. Amazon EBS provides volume storage for Amazon instances and can serve as device as well.
How does it work? Amazon EBS volumes can be created with sizes ranging from 1 GB to 1 TB and attached to running Amazon instances. It will then appear as a device just like hard drives, and would also work as such, including installing applications and the likes. Furthermore, a single instance can have several volumes attached to it to enhance I/O and throughput performance.
These Amazon EBS volumes are created within a specific Availability zone and can be attached to instances within that same zone. Data loss due to malfunction of one component are prevented since these storage volumes are duplicated also within its specific Availability Zone. On top of that, EBS is able to make snapshots of volumes for protecting data for long-term resilience.
You need not worry about mounting costs since the Amazon EBS is a pay-per-use feature. It is priced at the rate of $ 0.10 per allotted GB per month plus $ 0.10 per 1 million I/O requests for your volume.
Amazon EBS is suitable for your applications requiring connection to raw block level storage or file systems. It is a reliable and durable storage volume for running your Amazon instance.