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Instance store - Amazon EC2 Tutorial

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Instance store

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- [Instructor] In the previous videos we talked about EBS volumes and that they provide persistent storage for EC2 instances. Another type of volume that you can attach to your instances are instance store volumes. Instance store volumes provide temporary block-level storage for your EC2 instances. Unlike EBS volumes, instance store volumes are physically attached to the host computer. So when you launch an EC2 instance and attach an EBS volume, the instance and the volume are on distinct underlying hardware. But with instance store volumes, the volumes are hosted on the same underlying physical host as that of the EC2 instance. And for this reason, instance store volumes provide high-speed, low-latency access to data. So while instance store volumes only provide temporary storage, the data can be accessed at a high-speed and with very low-latency. And this makes it ideal for short-lived data and storage such as…

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