Yeah, I think Amazon gave up on trying to communicate the meaning of ephemeral storage, and I think that's for the best tbh. It's too easy to have important dat

Yeah, I think Amazon gave up on trying to communicate the meaning of ephemeral storage, and I think that's for the best tbh. It's too easy to have important data vanish that way. Something as simple as someone issuing a shutdown from the console is translated into an "instance stop" in AWS, which would purge the storage -- unfortunately often a lesson learned the hard way.