Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, vice president of storage at AWS, said EBS io2 Block Express illustrates how the company sees the evolution of storage and the cloud. Roughly speaking, 90% of the AWS ...

Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes deliver the first storage area network (SAN) built for the cloud, with up to 256,000 IOPS, 4,000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of capacity Next-generation ...

It took a while to figure out what had happened with EBS on that day, and in 2013, AWS set out to create a new database that could handle the peak loading that happened during an outage when all of ...

At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS announced four new storage services and capabilities aimed at delivering more choice, reducing costs and helping customers better protect their data.. The ...

AWS made two other announcements at re:Invent this year: one that automatically moves data to colder storage tiers, as well as a replication service. On the former, data migrates to tier 2 after ...

Elastic Block Store, or EBS, represented another key advancement, providing AWS with a block and object storage portfolio that has made the company larger than every traditional storage player ...

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 ...

AWS also offers a series of EBS-optimized EC2 virtual machine instances to be used with these block storage offerings. ... $0.046, plus a $0.01 per GB transfer fee. AWS’s cool storage service, ...

AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics ...

Each EBS volume is tied to a specific availability zone and is backed up to several storage devices. While there is redundancy within the zone, if the whole zone goes down, it can take EBS with it.