EBS is not "compute-attached". GP means the disks that appear to be local to the...

jcims · on July 27, 2020

EBS volumes appear local to the machine.

    [ec2-user@ip-1-1-1-1 ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
    Disk /dev/xvda: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 16777216 sectors
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disklabel type: gpt
    Disk identifier: 0D7E094F-1C63-43F2-AC82-3316E992075B
    
    Device       Start      End  Sectors Size Type
    /dev/xvda1    4096 16777182 16773087   8G Linux filesystem
    /dev/xvda128  2048     4095     2048   1M BIOS boot
    
    Partition table entries are not in disk order.

scarface74 · on July 27, 2020

I think there is a miscommunication.

EBS “appears to be local” but it is actually networked attached storage. Instance storage (is that the correct name?) is where the VM and the storage are on the same physical server and it should be faster.