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HAQM EBS volume types
The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes:
Volume Type
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EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 Block Express)
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EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3)
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2)
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Short Description
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Highest performance SSD volume designed for business-critical latency-sensitive transactional workloads
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Highest performance SSD volume designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads
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Lowest cost SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
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General Purpose SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
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Durability
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99.999%
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99.8% - 99.9% durability
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99.8% - 99.9% durability
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99.8% - 99.9% durability
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Use Cases
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Largest, most I/O intensive, mission critical deployments of NoSQL and relational databases such as Oracle, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAS Analytics
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I/O-intensive NoSQL and relational databases
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Virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, latency sensitive interactive applications, boot volumes, and dev/test environments
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Virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, latency sensitive interactive applications, boot volumes, and dev/test environments
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API Name
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io2
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io1
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gp3
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gp2
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Volume Size
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4 GB – 64 TB
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4 GB - 16 TB
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1 GB - 16 TB
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1 GB - 16 TB
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Max IOPS/Volume
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256,000
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64,000
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16,000
|
16,000
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Max Throughput*/Volume
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4,000 MB/s
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1,000 MB/s
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1,000 MB/s
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250 MB/s
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Max IOPS/Instance
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420,000
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420,000
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260,000
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260,000
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Max Throughput/Instance
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12,500 MB/s
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12,500 MB/s
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12,500 MB/s
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7,500 MB/s
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Latency
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sub-millisecond
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single digit millisecond
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single digit millisecond
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single digit millisecond
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Price
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$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
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Dominant Performance Attribute
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IOPS, throughput, latency, capacity, and volume durability
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IOPS
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IOPS
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IOPS
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*Volume throughput is calculated as MB = 1024^2 bytes
Hard Disk Drives (HDD)
HDD
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Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
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Cold HDD (sc1)
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Short Description
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Low cost HDD volume designed for frequently accessed, throughput intensive workloads |
Lowest cost HDD volume designed for less frequently accessed workloads |
Durability
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99.8% - 99.9% durability |
99.8% - 99.9% durability |
Use Cases
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Big data, data warehouses, log processing |
Colder data requiring fewer scans per day |
API Name
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st1 |
sc1 |
Volume Size
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125 GB - 16 TB |
125 GB - 16 TB |
Max IOPS**/Volume
|
500 |
250 |
Max Throughput***/Volume
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500 MB/s |
250 MB/s |
Max Throughput/Instance
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12,500 MB/s |
7,500 MB/s |
Price
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$0.045/GB-month |
$0.015/GB-month |
Dominant Performance Attribute
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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