# Amazon EBS Documentation

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides scalable, high-performance block-storage resources that you can use with your Amazon EC2 instances.

## Amazon EBS

- [User Guide](/en_us/ebs/latest/userguide/what-is-ebs.html): Describes key concepts of Amazon EBS and provides instructions for using Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots.
- [API Reference](/en_us/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/OperationList-query-ebs.html): Describes the API operations for Amazon EBS.

## Recycle Bin

- [User Guide](/en_us/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recycle-bin.html): Describes key concepts of Recycle Bin and provides instructions for using the feature.
- [API Reference](/en_us/recyclebin/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html): Describes the API operations for Recycle Bin.

## EBS direct APIs

- [User Guide](/en_us/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-accessing-snapshot.html): Describes key concepts of EBS direct APIs and provides instructions for using the feature.
- [API Reference](/en_us/ebs/latest/APIReference/): Describes the API operations for EBS direct APIs.

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