Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon EBS provides high-performance block storage that scales seamlessly with your most demanding workloads. Create storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances, then build file systems, run databases, or use them as traditional block storage.

Key advantages include:

• Enterprise reliability - 99.999% durability with io2 Block Express volumes and automatic replication within Availability Zones
• Flexible performance - Choose from cost-effective storage to high-performance options with the fastest IOPS and throughput
• Built-in security - Encrypt volumes without managing key infrastructure, with access controls and backup locks
• Simple data protection - Point-in-time snapshots enable disaster recovery, cross-region migration, and automated lifecycle management

Perfect for mission-critical applications like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and big data analytics engines including Hadoop and Spark. Easily migrate on-premises SAN workloads to the cloud while maintaining the performance and reliability your applications demand.