amazon ebs

Amazon EBS Block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. Well-suited for use as the primary storage for file systems, databases, or for any applications that require fine granular updates and access to raw, unformatted, block-level storage. Well-suited to both database-style applications (random reads and writes), and to throughput-intensive applications (long, continuous reads and writes). New EBS volumes receive their maximum performance the moment that they are available and do not require initialization (formerly known as pre-warming). However, storage blocks on volumes that were restored from snapshots must be initialized (pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the [...]