
How I Attached and Mounted an EBS Volume to My Ubuntu EC2 Instance
Introduction: What Is Amazon EBS and Why Does It Matter? Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is AWS’s scalable, high-performance block storage service designed for use with EC2 instances. Think of it as a virtual hard drive in the cloud—one that you can attach, detach, resize, and persist independently of your compute resources. Unlike the ephemeral…