EBS
general
- attached in same AZ
- create snapshot cross AZ or region
- Root EBS volume is deleted, by default
- persists independently
encrypted
- Public or shared snapshots of encrypted volumes are not supported
- Existing unencrypted volumes cannot be encrypted directly. Can migrate from copy encripted snapshot
- Supported on all Amazon EBS volume types, not instance type
performence
- use raid0 , raid1 improve iops
- EBS optimized with PIOPS EBS
price
- charge with storage, I/O requests and snapshot storage
- EBS backed EC2,very stop/start it will be charged as a separate hour
- snapshot