Amazon EBS Concepts From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-08-08 previous page next page Amazon EBS Concepts Amazon EBS volumes provide the following: Off-instance storage Persistence beyond the lifetime of instances High availability and reliability Ability to attach to and detach from a running instance Exposure as a device within an instance Amazon EBS snapshots provide the following: Ability to capture the current state of a volume Data backup A method for instantiating new volumes that contain the exact contents of a snapshot previous page start next page