Amazon Elastic Block Store was one of the first AWS offerings, and it remains a critical component for users that require direct access to storage volumes for databases and other transactional ...

Amazon Web Services is making good on its effort to simplify block storage with the general availability of its Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes, which is essentially a cloud storage area network.

Amazon EBS already offers four different volume types at various price points and performance benchmarks to support virtually any application that customers want to run in the cloud, including ...

Saving Elastic Block Store volumes to S3 is simple and inexpensive and can preserve critical data. But backing up data is paramount to avoid disaster. Taking frequent snapshots of Amazon EBS-backed ...

Today we announce the availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots Archive with AWS Backup. Previously available only in the Amazon EC2 console or Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, ...

Amazon Web Services is releasing io2, the next generation Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The new io2 volume is designed for 100x higher volume durability (99 ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to simplify its block storage offerings. The company announced the general availability of Amazon EBC io2 Block Express volumes today, bringing storage area network ...

Amazon today launched a new web service – EBS, the Elastic Block Store (yes I also first read it as ‘Elastic Book Store’) for EC2. EBS provides persistent storage for EC2 computing instances, and the ...

Just one day after Google launched its SSD-based persistent storage volumes for its Cloud Platform, Amazon today announced a very similar service for its users. With its new General Purpose SSD ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon Company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of io2, the next generation Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon ...