# Document history for the Amazon EBS User Guide The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon EBS. | Change | Description | Date | | --- |--- |--- | | [Elastic Volumes modification update](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-modify-volume.html) | You can now initiate a new Elastic Volumes modification as soon as the previous one completes, up to four times within a 24-hour period. | January 15, 2026 | | [Recycle Bin for EBS volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin.html) | Recycle Bin enables you to protect Amazon EBS volumes against accidental deletions. | November 20, 2025 | | [Copy an EBS volume](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copying-volume.html) | You can create an instant, point-in-time copy of an Amazon EBS volume within the same Availability Zone. | October 14, 2025 | | [`io2` Region expansion](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/provisioned-iops.html#io2-block-express) | `io2` Block Express volumes are now available in the China Regions. | October 10, 2025 | | [gp3 volume updates](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.html#gp3-ebs-volume-type) | You can now provision General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes with sizes up to 64 TiB, IOPS up to 80,000, and throughput up to 2,000 MiB/s. | September 26, 2025 | | [Latency guidance updates for io2 volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/provisioned-iops.html#io2-block-express) | `io2` Block Express volumes are designed to deliver an average latency of under 500 microseconds for 16KiB I/O operations. `io2` Block Express volumes also deliver better outlier latency compared to General Purpose volumes, reducing the frequency of I/Os exceeding 800 microseconds by over 10 times. | September 26, 2025 | | [Latency Injection](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fis-latency-injection.html) | Use the Amazon FIS latency Injection action to simulate elevated I/O latency on your Amazon EBS volumes. | September 16, 2025 | | [`io2` Region expansion](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/provisioned-iops.html#io2-block-express) | Provisioned IOPS SSD (`io2`) volumes are now available in all commercial and Amazon GovCloud (US) Regions. | July 22, 2025 | | [Local snapshots in Local Zones](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshots-localzones.html) | You can now create local snapshots in Local Zones. | May 15, 2025 | | [Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/initalize-volume.html) | 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 | | [Time-based AMI copies](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/time-based-copies.html) | 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 | | [Full snapshot size](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-describing-snapshots.html) | 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 IPv6 support](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/dlm-service-endpoints.html) | Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now provides dual-stack endpoints that support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. | February 7, 2025 | | [Recycle Bin IPv6 support](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/rbin-service-endpoints.html) | Recycle Bin now provides dual-stack endpoints that support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. | December 19, 2024 | | [Local snapshots in Dedicated Local Zones](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshots-localzones.html) | You can now create local snapshots in Dedicated Local Zones. | December 16, 2024 | | [AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole Amazon managed policy updated](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/managed-policies.html#AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole) | The AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole Amazon managed policy has been updated to include permission for the `ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones` action. | December 16, 2024 | | [Declarative policies for block public access for EBS snapshots](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/block-public-access-snapshots.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_declarative.html) in the *Amazon Organizations User Guide*. | December 1, 2024 | | [Time-based snapshot copies](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/time-based-copies.html) | 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 | | [Exclusion tags for Recycle Bin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin-create-rule.html) | You can now add exclusion tags to Region-level retention rules to exclude resources that have specific tags. | November 19, 2024 | | [Amazon CloudFormation support for Recycle Bin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-rbin-rule.html) | You can now create and manage Recycle Bin retention rules using Amazon CloudFormation. | November 18, 2024 | | [Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/nvme-detailed-performance-stats.html) | 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 | | [New CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html#ebs-volume-metrics) | You can now use the `VolumeAvgReadLatency`, `VolumeAvgWriteLatency`, `VolumeIOPSExceededCheck`, and `VolumeThroughputExceededCheck` Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor volume performance. | October 30, 2024 | | [Enable Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies across accounts](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/dlm-stacksets.html) | 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 | | [VolumeStalledIOCheck metric](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html#ebs-volume-metrics) | You can use the `VolumeStalledIOCheck` metric to check whether a volume has passed or failed a stalled IO check in the last minute. | November 16, 2023 | | [Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/policy-differences.html) | 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 | | [Amazon EBS snapshot lock](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-snapshot-lock.html) | 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 | | [Block public access for snapshots](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/block-public-access-snapshots.html) | You can now use block public access for snapshots to prevent the public sharing of your snapshots. | November 9, 2023 | | [Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager pre and post scripts](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/automate-app-consistent-backups.html) | 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](#doc-history) | Multi-Attach enabled `io2` volumes support NVMe reservations, which is a set of industry-standard storage fencing protocols. | September 18, 2023 | | [Fault testing on Amazon EBS](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fis.html) | 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 | | [Recycle Bin retention rule lock](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin-lock.html) | You can lock retention rules to help protect them against accidental or malicious modifications and deletions. | November 23, 2022 | | [Condition keys for Recycle Bin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin-perms.html#rbin-condition-keys) | You can use the `rbin:Request/ResourceType` and `rbin:Attribute/ResourceType` condition keys to filter access on Recycle Bin requests. | June 14, 2022 | | [`io2` Block Express volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/provisioned-iops.html) | You can modify the size and provisioned IOPS of `io2` Block Express volumes and you can enable them for fast snapshot restore. | May 31, 2022 | | [Recycle Bin for AMIs](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin.html) | Recycle Bin enables you to restore accidentally deleted AMIs. | February 3, 2022 | | [Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS snapshots](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/recycle-bin.html) | Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS snapshots is a snapshot recovery feature that enables you to restore accidentally deleted snapshots. | November 29, 2021 | | [AMI deprecation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ami-policy.html) | 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 | | [CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/monitor-dlm-cw-metrics.html) | You can monitor your Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies using Amazon CloudWatch. | July 28, 2021 | | [CloudTrail data events for EBS direct APIs](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/logging-ebs-apis-using-cloudtrail.html) | The ListSnapshotBlocks, ListChangedBlocks, GetSnapshotBlock, and PutSnapshotBlock APIs can be logged data events in CloudTrail. | July 27, 2021 | | [`io2` Block Express volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/provisioned-iops.html) | `io2` Block Express volumes are now generally available. | July 19, 2021 | | [Multi-Attach support for io2 volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-volumes-multi.html) | You can now enable Provisioned IOPS SSD (`io2`) volumes for Amazon EBS Multi-Attach. | December 18, 2020 | | [Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/event-policy.html) | Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate the process of sharing snapshots and copying them across Amazon accounts. | December 17, 2020 | | [gp3 volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.html) | 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 and Cold HDD volume sizes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-volume-types.html) | Throughput Optimized HDD (`st1`) and Cold HDD (`sc1`) volumes can range in size from 125 GiB to 16 TiB. | November 30, 2020 | | [Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshot-lifecycle.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshot-lifecycle.html) | Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies can be configured with up to four schedules. | September 17, 2020 | | [Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) volumes for Amazon EBS](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-volume-types.html) | Provisioned IOPS SSD (`io2`) volumes are designed to provide 99.999 percent volume durability with an AFR no higher than 0.001 percent. | August 24, 2020 | | [Fast snapshot restore](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html) | You can enable fast snapshot restore for snapshots that are shared with you. | July 21, 2020 | | [Amazon EBS fast snapshot restores](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html) | 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 | | [Amazon EBS multi-volume snapshots](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-creating-snapshot.html#ebs-create-snapshot-multi-volume) | 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 | | [Amazon EBS encryption by default](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-encryption.html#encryption-by-default) | 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 | | [Automate snapshot lifecycle](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/snapshot-lifecycle.html) | You can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate creation and deletion of snapshots for your EBS volumes. | July 12, 2018 | | [Perform modifications on attached EBS volumes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-modify-volume.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html) | You can now copy encrypted EBS snapshots between Amazon Web Services accounts. | June 21, 2016 | | [Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD volume types](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-volume-types.html) | You can now create Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes. | April 19, 2016 | | [General Purpose SSD volume type](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.html) | 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](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-encryption.html) | 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 | | [Incremental snapshot copies](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html) | You can now perform incremental snapshot copies. | June 11, 2013 | | [EBS snapshot copy](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ebs/latest/userguide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html) | 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 |