Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

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Although EC2 usually does a good job of hosting virtual machine instances, things can and sometimes do go wrong, and here Brien Posey continues his explanation of how to fix problems with an ...

The new io2 volume is designed for 100x higher volume durability (99.999%) when compared to the 99.9% durability offered by io1 Amazon EBS volumes. Higher volume durability reduces the likelihood of ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon Company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of io2, the next generation Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon ...