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Amazon EBS features

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Amazon EBS volume types

The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:

Volume Type
EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 Block Express)
EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3)
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2)
Short Description
Highest performance SSD volume designed for business-critical latency-sensitive transactional workloads
Highest performance SSD volume designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads
Lowest cost SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
General Purpose SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
Durability
99.999%
99.8% - 99.9% durability
99.8% - 99.9% durability
99.8% - 99.9% durability
Use Cases
Largest, most I/O intensive, mission critical deployments of NoSQL and relational databases such as Oracle, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAS Analytics
I/O-intensive NoSQL and relational databases
Virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, latency sensitive interactive applications, boot volumes, and dev/test environments
Virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, latency sensitive interactive applications, boot volumes, and dev/test environments
API Name
io2
io1
gp3
gp2
Volume Size
4 GB – 64 TB
4 GB - 16 TB
1 GB - 16 TB
1 GB - 16 TB
Max IOPS/Volume
256,000
64,000
16,000
16,000
Max Throughput*/Volume
4,000 MB/s
1,000 MB/s
1,000 MB/s
250 MB/s
Max IOPS/Instance
420,000
420,000
260,000
260,000
Max Throughput/Instance
12,500 MB/s
12,500 MB/s
12,500 MB/s
7,500 MB/s
Latency
sub-millisecond
single digit millisecond
single digit millisecond
single digit millisecond
Price

$0.125/GB-month

$0.065/provisioned IOPS-month up to 32,000 IOPS

$0.046/provisioned IOPS-month from 32,001 to 64,000

$0.032/provisioned IOPS-month for greater than 64,000 IOPS

$0.125/GB-month

$0.065/provisioned IOPS-month

$0.08/GB-month 3,000 IOPS free and

$0.005/provisioned IOPS-month over 3,000; 125 MB/s free and

$0.04/provisioned MB/s-month over 125

$0.10/GB-month
Dominant Performance Attribute
IOPS, throughput, latency, capacity, and volume durability
IOPS
IOPS
IOPS

*Volume throughput is calculated as MB = 1024^2 bytes

Hard Disk Drives (HDD)

HDD
Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
Cold HDD (sc1)
Short Description

Low cost HDD volume designed for frequently accessed, throughput intensive workloads

Lowest cost HDD volume designed for less frequently accessed workloads

Durability

99.8% - 99.9% durability

99.8% - 99.9% durability

Use Cases

Big data, data warehouses, log processing

Colder data requiring fewer scans per day

API Name

st1

sc1

Volume Size

125 GB - 16 TB

125 GB - 16 TB

Max IOPS**/Volume

500

250

Max Throughput***/Volume

500 MB/s

250 MB/s

Max Throughput/Instance

12,500 MB/s

7,500 MB/s

Price

$0.045/GB-month

$0.015/GB-month

Dominant Performance Attribute

MB/s

MB/s

Looking for EBS Magnetic? See the Previous Generation Volumes page.
* st1/sc1 based on 1 MB I/O size
** volume throughput is calculated as MB = 1024^2 bytes