Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) was introduced in 2008. It provides persistent block storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances. EBS is designed for high-performance storage that is tightly integrated with EC2 to support a variety of workloads.
The service offers features like snapshot management, data encryption, and volume resizing, ensuring flexibility and security. Amazon EBS supports both general-purpose and provisioned IOPS volumes, catering to diverse performance requirements.