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 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 ...

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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, ...

Brien Posey explains how to keep tabs on your AWS storage usage, one of the biggest factors affecting EC2 virtual machine performance. Storage usage is one of the things that has the biggest impact on ...