AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (AWS CCP) Practice Test Set 1: Which AWS storage technology can be considered a “virtual hard disk in the cloud”?

Question

Which AWS storage technology can be considered a “virtual hard disk in the cloud”?

Sarahmarie Hollenstein · Accepted Answer

An EBS volume is a block storage device that is most similar to a virtual hard disk in the cloud as when attached to an instance it appears as a local disk that can have an operating system installed on or be formatted and used for any other local storage purpose.

Sarahmarie Hollenstein · Answer

"Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume"