EUCPERF05-BP04 Use instance storage when available and appropriate
An instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. Instance store is ideal for temporary storage of information that changes frequently, such as buffers, caches, scratch data, and other temporary content.
For WorkSpaces Applications, the Graphics G4, Graphics G5, and Memory Optimized (stream.memory.z1d) instance families include NVMe instance storage volumes. For further information related to the instance storage volumes and initializing, see Instance store temporary block storage for EC2 instances.
For WorkSpaces, the graphics.g4dn and GraphicsPro.G4dn bundles provide NVMe instance storage volumes.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Low
Implementation guidance
Use the local instance store on instances that support it to optimize the performance
of end user applications. When doing so, consider that the instance store is not backed up
and should only be used to satisfy temporary storage requirements. See Local Instance Store for GPU-enabled Bundles
