AWS News Blog New SSD-Backed Elastic Block Storage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS for short) lets you create block storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances. AWS users enjoy the ability to create EBS volumes that range in size from 1 GB up to 1 TB, create snapshot backups, and to create volumes from snapshots with a couple of clicks, with optional encryption at no extra charge. We launched
![New SSD-Backed Elastic Block Storage | Amazon Web Services](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/0fc257e8ac5c0a4234f0ec8727a86934bb55480e/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fd2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net%2F827bfc458708f0b442009c9c9836f7e4b65557fb%2F2020%2F06%2F03%2FBlog-Post_thumbnail.png)