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Different Types Of EBS In AWS

In this article, we will discuss different types of EBS in AWS.

Type

AWS supports the following categories of EBS: -

There are two volume types of General-purpose SSD: -

The difference between gp2 and gp3 is: -

	gp3	gp2
Max throughput per volume	1000 MiB/s	250 MiB/s

Some of the common properties of General Purpose SSD are: -

Property	Value
Volume Type	gp3
Durability	99.8% - 99.9%
Use-cases	Low latency interactive appsDevelopment and test environment
Volume size	1 GB - 16 TB
Max IOPS per volume	16000
Amazon EBS Multi-attach	Not supported

There are two volume types of Provisioned IOPS SSD: -

The difference between io2 and io1 is: -

	io2	io1
Use case	Workloads that requires IOPS performance more than 64000 IOPS	Workloads that requires IOPS performance more than 16000 IOPS
Volume Size	4GB - 64TiB	4GB - 16TiB
Max IOPS per volume	256000	64000
Max throughput per volume	4000 MiB/s	1000 MiB/s

Property	Value
Volume Type	st1
Durability	99.8% - 99.9%
Use-cases	Big DataData WarehouseLog Processing
Volume size	125 GB - 16 TB
Max IOPS per volume	500
Amazon EBS Multi-attach	Not supported
Boot Volume	Not supported

Property	Value
Volume Type	sc1
Durability	99.8% - 99.9%
Use-cases	Throughput oriented storage that is infrequently accessedScenarios that requires low scoring cost
Volume size	125 GB - 16 TB
Max IOPS per volume	250
Amazon EBS Multi-attach	Not supported
Boot Volume	Not supported

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