Ephemeral storage

Each instance comes with its own ephemeral storage (outlined in Instance types & specifications), usually with NVMe SSD. This storage will only persist while the instance is continuously running. It will be lost during most instance events, e.g. if it is paused, relocated pre-empted, or terminated. Ephemeral storage is also wiped if the underlying host is restarted for any reason (e.g. hardware maintenance). Customer should not rely on ephemeral storage for data other than work-in-progress data as it has the lowest durability of all storage classes.

There is no cost to use the ephemeral storage.

Ephemeral storage is automatically mounted for you (and re-mounted in an empty state after preemptions) at /mnt/local.