# Amazon EBS Basics and Best Practices

DevFeed: [Amazon EBS Basics and Best Practices](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/amazon-ebs-basics-and-best-practices-18011.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.guilleojeda.com/ebs-basics-best-practices>)

Author: Guillermo Ojeda

Published: 2023-08-30T16:15:03Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Guille Ojeda](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guille-ojeda.md>)

Topics: [Amazon EC2](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-ec2.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [beginner-developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/beginner-developers.md>), [cloud-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-architecture.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [ec2](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ec2.md>), [hdd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hdd.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [ssd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssd.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial covering Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) fundamentals and best practices, including how EBS volumes provide persistent storage for Amazon EC2 instances, how volumes are managed, and the characteristics of GP3 volumes.

## Source excerpt

Elastic Block Store (EBS for short) is a block-level storage service for EC2 instances. Essentially it's a virtual SSD or HDD that you attach to EC2 instances, so they can have persistent storage. Honestly, EBS is pretty boring to talk about, but if ...