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Amazon EBS volume types

The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:

Solid State Drives (SSD)
 
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

 
*Volume throughput is calculated as MB = 1024^2 bytes
Hard Disk Drives (HDD)  
  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