What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?
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Credits — wikipedia.orgWhat is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)Amazon #ebs is like a hard drive in the cloud that provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances.These volumes can be attached to your EC2 instances and allow you to create a file system on top of these volumes, run a database, server or use them in any other way you would use a block device.What is a block storage volume?A block storage volume works similarly to a hard drive. You can store any type of files on it or even install a whole Operating System on it.EBS volumes are placed in an availability zone, where they are automatically replicated to protect data loss from the failure of a single component.But since they are replicated only across a single availability zone you may lose data if the (...)
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