Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a block level storage volume provided by AWS platform for use with Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances.
Once Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is mounted on to an EC2 instance, you can use it for a wide variety of purposes such as - for file systems, relational databases, non-relational databases, containerized applications, big data analytics etc.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides multiple volume types that you can choose based on your storage, performance and cost needs.
The volume types fall into two broad categories
1. SSD-backed storage - suitable for transactionla, high-performant workloads
2. HHD-backed storagesuitable for throughput intensive workloads such as bid-data analysis.