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) |