Amazon EBS Cold HDD Volumes

Lowest cost HDD volumes for colder storage offering up to 250 MB/s of throughput per volume

Overview

Cold HDD (sc1) volumes provide low-cost magnetic storage that defines performance in terms of throughput rather than IOPS. With a lower throughput limit than Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volumes, sc1 volumes are a good fit for large, sequential cold-data workloads. If you require infrequent access to your data and are looking to save costs, sc1 provides inexpensive block storage. Bootable sc1 volumes are not supported.

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Benefits

Product Details

Volume type

sc1

Durability

99.8% - 99.9% durability (0.1% - 0.2% annual failure rate)

Use cases

Throughput-oriented storage for data that is infrequently accessed

API Name

sc1

Volume size

125 GiB - 16 TiB

Max IOPS per volume (1 MiB I/O)

250

Max throughput per volume

250

Max throughput per instance

7,500 MB/s

Amazon EBS Multi-attach

Not supported

Price

$0.015 / GB-mo (N. Virginia)