[KaiserPro]

SAN and s3 are different beasts.

EBS is very much a SAN, if you read the docs, the Nitro HBA Controllers have dedicated bandwidth allocation for doing just EBS.

As there is a dedicated network for just servicing block storage, that sounds suspiciously like a Storage Area Network to me.

S3 for backup makes lots of sense, its ubiqutous, reliable and smeared over lots of regions. It also works well with large files. Its also orders of magnitude cheaper than EBS to run.

[StreamBright]

Sure thing. I was referring to the lack of SAN in the context of backups. Yes, EBS is a SAN in that sense.