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Is Elastic Block Store Supported in OCI or Exclusive to AWS?
Tackling the Oracle Cloud Essentials exam? Learn why Elastic Block Store (EBS) is not available in OCI, and explore the actual Oracle Cloud storage options, including Block Volumes, File Storage, and Object Storage, to easily ace your test.
Question
Which storage option is NOT available in OCI?
A. Block Volumes.
B. Elastic Block Store.
C. File Storage.
D. Object Storage.
Answer
B. Elastic Block Store.
Explanation
Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering that provides persistent block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances, not an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service. OCI offers its own suite of primary storage options tailored to different workload requirements. These include Block Volumes (which operate at the raw storage device level), File Storage (a fully managed network file system), Object Storage (highly durable storage managed as fixed-sized blocks for unstructured data), and Local NVMe SSDs (for temporary, high-performance storage).