Instance stores

Block-level storage volumes behave like physical hard drives. - 💡 when the instance is terminated, you lose any data in the instance store. - when use it - for temporary information such as buffers, caches, scratch data, and other temporary content. -  if you host applications that replicate data to other EC2 instances, such as Hadoop cluster.

References

1. https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/134/play/85854/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials Module 5
2. https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/external/view/elearning/1851/aws-technical-essentials?da=sec&sec=prep Module 4
3. AWS user guide: Amazon EC2 Instance Store