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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing “degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes.” It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within ...