What are Amazon EBS gp3 volumes?
Amazon EBS gp3 volumes are the latest generation of general-purpose SSD-based EBS volumes that enable customers to provision performance independent of storage capacity, while providing up to 20% lower price per GB than existing gp2 volumes. With gp3 volumes, customers can scale IOPS (input/output operations per second) and throughput without needing to provision additional block storage capacity. This means customers only pay for the storage they need.
The new gp3 volumes are designed to provide a predictable, baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS regardless of the volume size. For use cases where your application needs more performance than the baseline, you simply provision the IOPS or throughput you need, without having to add more capacity. gp3 volumes are ideal for a wide variety of applications that require high performance at low cost, including MySQL, Cassandra, virtual desktops, and Hadoop analytics clusters. For applications that need higher durability, latency, or IOPS than gp3 can provide, we recommend using io2 Block Express volumes.
To learn more about pricing, visit the Amazon EBS pricing page.
Benefits of Amazon EBS gp3 volumes
Product Details
Volume Type |
gp3 |
gp2 |
Short Description |
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 |
99.8% - 99.9% durability |
99.8% - 99.9% durability |
Use Cases |
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 |
gp3 |
gp2 |
Volume Size |
1 GB - 16 TB |
1 GB - 16 TB |
Max IOPS/Volume |
16,000 |
16,000 |
Max Throughput*/Volume |
1,000 MB/s |
250 MB/s |
Max IOPS/Instance |
260,000 |
260,000 |
Max Throughput/Instance |
12,500 MB/s |
7,500 MB/s |
Price |
$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 |
*volume throughput is calculated as MB = 1024^2 bytes