Backup/Migration: To move a volume across AZs, you first need to take a

snapshot.

● Provisioned capacity: capacity needs to be provisioned in advanced (GBs

& IOPS)

● You can increase the capacity of the drive over time.

● It can be detached from an EC2 instance and attached to another one

quickly.

● It’s locked to Single Availability Zone (AZ)

● The default volume type is General Purpose SSD (gp2)

● EBS Volume can be mounted parallely using RAID Settings:

○ RAID 0 (increase performance)

○ RAID 1 (increase fault tolerance)

● It’s a network drive (i.e. not a physical drive).

● Unencrypted volume can be encrypted using an encrypted snapshot

● Snapshot of the encrypted volume is encrypted by default.

● When you share an encrypted snapshot, you must also share the

customer-managed CMK used to encrypt the snapshot.