Is a disk included with an Amazon EC2 instance?

Question

Amazon Web Services

Do I understand correctly, using the example of Small Instance

1.7 GiB memory
1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
160 GB instance storage
32-bit or 64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
EBS-Optimized Available: No
API name: m1.small

What does the cost of the instance also include 160GB of disk?
Or does 160Gb mean something else here?

Answer 1

Yes, instance storage is free. EBS - for a fee.

Answer 2

Instance storage is not a hard drive, it is an image of the instance from where it will rise at startup.

Answer 3

160GB is the Ephemeral store, the local disk of the hardware. It is 4 times faster than EBS, survives a reboot, but disappears with poweroff. It is usually mounted automatically in / mnt.

For EBS we pay separately for the partition size + disk operations.

I also remind you that a separate payment for network traffic, and in my opinion, is not very frail compared to any other hosters.