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Volume Type General io1 Throughput Cold HDD

Purpose (gp2) Optimized (st1)
Use Cases

Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

Volume Type General Purpose SSD (gp2)  Throughput Optimized Cold HDD (sc1)
HDD (st1)

Use Cases Boot volumes, low-latency Big data, data Colder data
interactive applications, dev, warehouses, log requiring fewer
test. processing. scans per day.

Volume Size 1 GB – 16 TB 500 GB – 16 TB 500 GB – 16 TB

Max 10,000 500 250

IOPS/Volume (16 KB I/O size) (1 MB I/O size) (1 MB I/O size)

Max 48,000 48,000 48,000

IOPS/Instance
(using multiple
volumes)