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.

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) |