Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Volume Clones for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), our high-performance block storage service. This new capability allows you to instantly create and access point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone (AZ), accelerating software development workflows and enhancing operational agility.
Customers use Amazon EBS volumes as durable block storage attached to Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon EBS Volume Clones, you can instantly create copies of volumes and access the copied volumes with single-digit millisecond latency. Amazon EBS Volume Clones enables rapid creation of test and development environments from production volumes, eliminating manual copy workflows. Additionally, Volume Clones integrates with the Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, simplifying storage management for containerized applications.
Amazon EBS Volume Clones is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can access Volume Clones through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. This capability supports all EBS volume types and works for volume copies within the same account and AZ.
For detailed pricing information, please visit the EBS pricing page. To explore how Volume Clones can accelerate your software development processes and improve operational efficiency, visit the AWS documentation.
Categories: general:products/amazon-elastic-load-balancing,general:products/aws-govcloud-us
Source: Amazon Web Services
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