A new Amazon CloudWatch metric called Attached EBS Status Check monitors if one or more Amazon EBS volumes attached to your EC2 instances are reachable and able to complete I/O operations, allowing you to quickly detect and respond to any EBS impairments that may potentially impact the performance of your applications running on Amazon EC2 instances.

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<p>The article introduces a new Amazon CloudWatch metric called "Attached EBS Status Check" that monitors whether one or more Amazon EBS volumes attached to your EC2 instances are reachable and able to complete I/O operations.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>The new metric can quickly detect and help respond to any EBS impairments that may potentially impact the performance of applications running on Amazon EC2 instances.</li>
<li>You can monitor the Attached EBS Status Check metric using CloudWatch alarms.</li>
<li>The metric is available at a 1-minute frequency with no additional charges, and is supported for all EC2 Nitro instances in all commercial AWS regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.</li>
<li>The article provides a link to learn more about the Attached EBS status check CloudWatch metric.</li>
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New Amazon CloudWatch metric monitors EC2 instance reachability to EBS volumes

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