This document provides an overview of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) and discusses the different EBS volume types. It begins with an introduction to EBS and how it provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. It then covers the various EBS volume types (SSD, HDD, provisioned IOPS, general purpose, throughput optimized), their performance characteristics and common use cases. The document also discusses strategies for choosing the right volume type and provides examples of using multiple types together for hybrid workloads.