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aliases:
  - EBS
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> Part of [[AWS Cloud Services#AWS Core Services|AWS Core Services]]
##### **Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)**
extra storage that is connected to the [[Amazon EC2|EC2]] instance but is not the same as the instance storage.
- Persistent and can be attached to any [[Amazon EC2|EC2]] instance in the [[AWS Cloud Services#**Availability Zone (AZ)**|AZ]].
- It is not deleted when the [[Amazon EC2|EC2]] instance is terminated.