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065 EBS Volume Types

6 Types

  • gp2/gp3
  • io1/io2
  • stl
  • scl

General Purpose SSD

  • Cost effective
  • low-latency

gp2

  • previous version
  • size of the volume and OPS are linked

gp3

  • new version
  • can increase IOPS and throughput independently
  • 3000~16000 IOPS
  • 125~1000 MiB/s

Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) SSD

  • Critical business apps
  • Great for DB

io1 (~16TiB)

  • can increase PIOPS independently from storage size
  • Max PIOPS: 64,000 for Nitro EC2, 32,000 for other

io2 Block Express (~64TiB)

  • sub-millisecond latency
  • Max PIOPS: 256,000

Supports EBS Multi-attach

Hard Disk Drives (HDD)

  • cannot be a boot volume
  • ~16TiB

st1 Throughput optimized HDD

  • big data, data warehouse, log processing
  • Max throughput 500 MiB/s
  • Max 500 IOPS

sc1 Cold HDD

  • for data that is infrequently accessed
  • when lowest cost is important
  • Max throughput 250 MiB/s
  • Max 250 IOPS