ECS Instance Store

EC2 Instance Store

• EBS Volumes are network drives with good but limited performance

• If you need a high performance hardware disk, use EC2 Instance Store

• Better I/O performance

• EC2 Instance Store lose their storage if they are stopped (ephemeral)

• Good for buffer/cache/scratch data/temporary content

• Risk of data loss if hardware fails

• Backups & Replication are your responsibility