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status: archived
date: 2026-05-03
created: 2026-05-03
updated: 1980-01-01
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  A volume is a network drive you can attach to your instances while they run
  It allows your instances to persist data even after termination of EC2 inst
  They can be mounted to one instance at a time
  Analogy: 'External Drive, USB'
  Free **30 GB**
  not extendable
  ![[img-20240912-140251-97e15d53.png]]
We can backup or snapshot of your EBS volumes at any point of time
Can copy snapshots across AZ regions
![[img-20240912-141212-a3d64c3c.png]]