Resilience in Amazon Elastic Block Store
The Amazon global infrastructure is built around Amazon Web Services Regions and Availability Zones. Amazon Web Services Regions provide multiple physically separated and isolated Availability Zones, which are connected with low-latency, high-throughput, and highly redundant networking. With Availability Zones, you can design and operate applications and databases that automatically fail over between zones without interruption. Availability Zones are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than traditional single or multiple data center infrastructures.
For more information about Amazon Web Services Regions and Availability Zones, see Amazon Global
Infrastructure
In addition to the Amazon global infrastructure, Amazon EBS offers several features to help support your data resiliency and backup needs.
Automating EBS snapshots using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
Copying EBS snapshots across Regions