Amazon Elastic Block Store

Easy to use, high performance block storage at any scale

30 GB of storage

for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier

Scale fast for your most demanding, high-performance workloads, including mission-critical applications such as SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft products.

Protect against failures with high availability, including replication within Availablity Zone (AZs), and 99.999% durability with io2 Block Express volumes.

Select the storage that best fits your workload. Volumes range from cost-effective dollar-per-GB to high performance with the fastest IOPS and throughput.

How it works

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Use cases

Build your SAN in the cloud for I/O intensive applications

Migrate mid-range, on-premises storage area network (SAN) workloads to the cloud. Attach high-performance and high-availability block storage for mission-critical applications.