Resilience in Amazon Elastic Block Store - Amazon EBS
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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