Amazon EBS announces Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization. This feature helps you create fully performant Amazon EBS volumes from Amazon EBS Snapshots with predictability, helping speed up Amazon EC2 Instance launches at scale, disaster recovery, and volume copy workflows.

You can use Amazon EBS volumes as durable, block-level storage devices attached to Amazon EC2 instances. With Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization, you can launch hundreds of instances from Amazon EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) at the same time and know that the attached volumes will be fully performant within a predictable amount of time. This minimizes the amount of time before workloads can fully utilize the underlying storage.

You use the feature by specifying a volume initialization rate when creating new volumes from snapshots, launching new instances from Amazon EBS-backed AMIs, replacing root volumes of instances, and provisioning volumes using the Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. You can also specify the rate of volume initialization in Launch Templates, applying the same rate to all instances launched by the template.

This feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. For pricing information, please visit the EBS pricing page. To learn more, visit the AWS News Blog and refer to the technical documentation.