Despite being the lowest cost EBS storage type, Cold HDD EBS storage can burst up to 80MB/s per TB to a maximum throughput of 250MB/s per volume. Cold HDD (Type sc1)Ĭold HDD EBS storage is ideal for less frequently-accessed workloads and the kind of data processing jobs you might save for spot instance availability. Note in the table below, the max throughput of Type st1 is twice that of Type gp2 at less than half the price. Throughput optimized HDD block storage is designed for frequently-accessed, throughput-intensive workloads, and is suitable for development and testing environments. Now, users can scale IOPS and throughput without needing to provision additional block storage capacity. Previously, developers had to provision block storage volumes that met both the performance and storage needs of the workload, often resulting in overprovisioning for one of the two.
The upgrade from Type gp2 to gp3 allows users to provision IOPS and throughput independent of storage capacity and receive up to a 20% lower cost per gigabyte. Type gp3 is the latest generation of general-purpose SSD-based EBS volumes. The previous generation, io1, is also still available at the same price point as io2, but with significantly less IOPS/GB performance. Backed by solid-state drives, Type io2 EBS storage is designed for IOPS-intensive and throughput-intensive workloads that require extremely low latency. Type io2 EBS storage is the highest performance EBS storage option. There are four types of EBS volumes to choose from depending on your workload’s performance, latency, and accessibility needs. What are the different types of EBS volumes? For some applications, there may be no implications for where your data is stored and therefore the cheapest region should be selected. and by 125% globally, so it’s very important to compare regions suitable for storing your data. Regional prices can vary by nearly 90% within the U.S. In addition to the amount of data and the service level provisioned, there’s one further pricing variable for each EBS option: the region where the instance attached to the EBS volume is deployed. It’s also important to know you’ll be charged for EBS snapshots, storing the data in an S3 bucket, and cross-region data transfers if applicable. Again, you will be billed for this higher level of performance whether it is used or not.
This means if you provision a block storage volume with 10GB of capacity, you will pay for 10GB of capacity whether you use it or not-and whether or not it’s attached to a running instance.Ĭertain types of EBS volumes allow you to provision additional IOPS and throughput beyond the free baseline performance level. With EBS, you pay for what you provision. Understanding EBS pricing is less complicated than S3 storage pricing, but you still need to take care to avoid paying too much and to ensure you provision the right resource for the workload assigned to it.
In previous articles, we shared the seven factors that affect Amazon S3 pricing and how to choose the right S3 storage class for your performance and pricing needs. Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage pricing varies depending on which of the three storage services you use-object storage (S3), block storage (EBS), or file storage (EFS).