
Highest performance SSD volume designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads Highest performance and highest durability SSD volume designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads Highest performance SSD volume designed for business-critical latency-sensitive transactional workloads

This allows you to easily right-size your deployment and adapt to performance changes.ĮBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 Block Express) HDD-backed volumes include Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) for frequently accessed, throughput intensive workloads and the lowest cost Cold HDD (sc1) for less frequently accessed data.Įlastic Volumes is a feature of Amazon EBS that allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of live volumes with no downtime or performance impact. SSD-backed volumes include the highest performance Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 and io1) for latency-sensitive transactional workloads and General Purpose SSD (gp3 and gp2) that balance price and performance for a wide variety of transactional data. io2 Block Express volumes are ideal for the largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Oracle databases, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, InterSystems database, and SAS Analytics. With io2 volumes running on Block Express, you can achieve sub-millisecond latency and provision a single io2 volume with up to 256,000 IOPS, 4,000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of capacity-a 4x increase in performance, throughput, and capacity for existing io2 volumes. Our highest performance io2 Block Express volume enables the first SAN in the Cloud. Block Express is a next-generation storage server architecture that provides the highest block storage performance without the cost or hassle of having to procure, scale, and maintain expensive on-premises SANs. These options are divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes (performance depends primarily on IOPS), and HDD-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, such as MapReduce and log processing (performance depends primarily on MB/s). All EBS volume types offer durable snapshot capabilities and are designed for 99.999% availability.Īmazon EBS provides a range of options that allow you to optimize storage performance and cost for your workload. Amazon EBS volumes are placed in a specific Availability Zone where they are automatically replicated to protect you from the failure of a single component. Once attached, you can create a file system on top of these volumes, run a database, or use them in any other way you would use block storage.


Amazon EBS allows you to create storage volumes and attach them to Amazon EC2 instances.
