- Provides block storage over the iSCSI protocol, with data stored in Amazon S3 and backed up using EBS snapshots.
- Snapshots can be used to restore volumes on-premises or in AWS.
Volume Types
- Cached volumes
- Low-latency access to recently used data stored locally.
- The full dataset is maintained in Amazon S3.
- Stored volumes
- The entire dataset is stored on-premises.
- Periodic backups are sent asynchronously to Amazon S3.