Amazon EBS now supports Volume Clones for instant volume copies
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AWS has announced the general availability of Volume Clones for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), a new feature that enables instant creation of point-in-time volume copies.
- Allows instant volume copies within the same Availability Zone
- Provides single-digit millisecond latency for copied volumes
- Accelerates test and development environment creation
- Integrates with Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver
- Available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions
- Supports all EBS volume types
- Accessible via AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, and CloudFormation
Volume Clones simplifies software development workflows by enabling quick, low-latency volume copies within the same account and Availability Zone.
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