- High performance hardware disk, better I/O performance
- Special type of Ec2 instance, ‘i’ instance family?
- Backups and Restoration are our RESPONSIBLITY
- Ephemeral, only for ephemeral IO operations, buffer, cache, temporary content
Reboot and Hibernate will not affect the data. Since its a hot reboot. Cold reboot replaces the instances
Taking AMI for instance stored instances
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami-instance-store.html
- The AMI is just the EC2 configuration and the root OS
Resizing an Instance
- When you stop an instance, the data on any instance store volumes is erased. To keep data from instance store volumes, be sure to back it up to persistent storage.