Document history for the Amazon EBS User Guide
The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon EBS.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
You can now create local snapshots in Local Zones. | May 15, 2025 | |
You can now specify a volume initialization rate when you create Amazon EBS volumes to ensure that they are fully initialized in a predictable amount of time. | May 6, 2025 | |
You can now request a completion duration for EBS-backed AMI copy operations to ensure that AMI copies are completed within a specific timeframe. | February 25, 2025 | |
You can now view the full size of an Amazon EBS snapshot using the Amazon EC2 console and Amazon CLI. | February 11, 2025 | |
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now provides dual-stack endpoints that support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. | February 7, 2025 | |
Recycle Bin now provides dual-stack endpoints that support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. | December 19, 2024 | |
You can now create local snapshots in Dedicated Local Zones. | December 16, 2024 | |
AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole Amazon managed policy updated | The AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole Amazon managed policy has been updated to include permission
for the | December 16, 2024 |
Declarative policies for block public access for EBS snapshots | You can now use declarative policies to apply account-level settings for block public access for snapshots across multiple Regions and accounts simultaneously. For more information, see Declarative policies in the Amazon Organizations User Guide. | December 1, 2024 |
You can now request a completion duration for snapshot copy operations to ensure that snapshot copies are completed within a specific timeframe. | November 26, 2024 | |
You can now add exclusion tags to Region-level retention rules to exclude resources that have specific tags. | November 19, 2024 | |
You can now create and manage Recycle Bin retention rules using Amazon CloudFormation. | November 18, 2024 | |
Amazon EBS NVMe block devices vend real-time, high-resolution I/O performance statistics for Amazon EBS volumes attached to Nitro-based Amazon EC2 instances. | November 12, 2024 | |
You can now use the | October 30, 2024 | |
Enable Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies across accounts | You can use Amazon CloudFormation StackSets to enable Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies across an Amazon organization or across specific Amazon accounts. | April 26, 2024 |
You can use the | November 16, 2023 | |
You can now create Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies for EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs to backup all volumes and instances in a Region. | November 16, 2023 | |
You can lock your Amazon EBS snapshots to protect them against accidental or malicious deletions, or to or store them in WORM format for a specific duration. | November 15, 2023 | |
You can now use block public access for snapshots to prevent the public sharing of your snapshots. | November 9, 2023 | |
You can now use pre and post scripts in your Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager snapshot policies to automate the lifecycle of application-consistent snapshots. | November 7, 2023 | |
NVMe reservations | Multi-Attach enabled | September 18, 2023 |
Use Amazon FIS to temporarily stop I/O between an EBS volume and the instances to which it is attached to test how your workloads handle I/O interruptions. | January 27, 2023 | |
You can lock retention rules to help protect them against accidental or malicious modifications and deletions. | November 23, 2022 | |
You can use the | June 14, 2022 | |
You can modify the size and provisioned IOPS of | May 31, 2022 | |
Recycle Bin enables you to restore accidentally deleted AMIs. | February 3, 2022 | |
Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS snapshots is a snapshot recovery feature that enables you to restore accidentally deleted snapshots. | November 29, 2021 | |
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager EBS-backed AMI policies can deprecate AMIs. The AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRoleForAMIManagement Amazon managed policy has been updated to support this feature. | August 23, 2021 | |
You can monitor your Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies using Amazon CloudWatch. | July 28, 2021 | |
The ListSnapshotBlocks, ListChangedBlocks, GetSnapshotBlock, and PutSnapshotBlock APIs can be logged data events in CloudTrail. | July 27, 2021 | |
| July 19, 2021 | |
You can now enable Provisioned IOPS SSD ( | December 18, 2020 | |
Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate the process of sharing snapshots and copying them across Amazon accounts. | December 17, 2020 | |
A new Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD volume type. You can specify provisioned IOPS and throughput when you create or modify the volume. | December 1, 2020 | |
Throughput Optimized HDD ( | November 30, 2020 | |
You can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate the creation, retention, and deletion of EBS-backed AMIs. | November 9, 2020 | |
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies can be configured with up to four schedules. | September 17, 2020 | |
Provisioned IOPS SSD ( | August 24, 2020 | |
You can enable fast snapshot restore for snapshots that are shared with you. | July 21, 2020 | |
You can enable fast snapshot restores on an EBS snapshot to ensure that EBS volumes created from the snapshot are fully-initialized at creation and instantly deliver all of their provisioned performance. | November 20, 2019 | |
You can take exact point-in-time, data coordinated, and crash-consistent snapshots across multiple EBS volumes attached to an EC2 instance. | May 29, 2019 | |
After you enable encryption by default in a Region, all new EBS volumes you create in the Region are encrypted using the default KMS key for EBS encryption. | May 23, 2019 | |
You can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate creation and deletion of snapshots for your EBS volumes. | July 12, 2018 | |
With most EBS volumes attached to most EC2 instances, you can modify volume size, type, and IOPS without detaching the volume or stopping the instance. | February 13, 2017 | |
Copy encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots between Amazon Web Services accounts | You can now copy encrypted EBS snapshots between Amazon Web Services accounts. | June 21, 2016 |
You can now create Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes. | April 19, 2016 | |
General Purpose SSD volumes offer cost-effective storage that is ideal for a broad range of workloads. These volumes deliver single-digit millisecond latencies, the ability to burst to 3,000 IOPS for extended periods of time, and a base performance of 3 IOPS/GiB. General Purpose SSD volumes can range in size from 1 GiB to 1 TiB. | June 16, 2014 | |
Amazon EBS encryption offers seamless encryption of EBS data volumes and snapshots, eliminating the need to build and maintain a secure key management infrastructure. EBS encryption enables data at rest security by encrypting your data using Amazon managed keys. The encryption occurs on the servers that host EC2 instances, providing encryption of data as it moves between EC2 instances and EBS storage. | May 21, 2014 | |
You can now perform incremental snapshot copies. | June 11, 2013 | |
You can use snapshot copies to create backups of data, to create new Amazon EBS volumes, or to create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). | December 17, 2012 |