Amazon EBS features
Amazon EBS volume types
The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:
Solid State Drives (SSD) |
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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 |
Hard Disk Drives (HDD) | ||
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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