Amazon EBS

Block storage volume attached to a single EC2 instance, like a virtual hard disk.

Don’t confuse it with

EFS is a shared file system many instances mount at once; S3 is object storage over HTTP.

Tested in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), under Cloud Technology and Services — 34% of the exam.

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