Amazon EBS now supports Volume Clones for Instant Volume Copies
Today, we announce the general availability of Volume Clones for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), our high-performance block storage service. This new capability enables customers 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-level storage devices attached to Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon EBS Volume Clones you can create copies of volumes and access the copied volumes instantly 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.
You can access Amazon EBS Volume Clones through the Amazon Web Services Console, Amazon Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon SDKs, and Amazon CloudFormation in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. This feature 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 technical documentation.