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Which Amazon EBS volume type can be expanded to 64,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput and offers a tiered pricing structure?

publish date2025/03/21 03:42:44.714578 UTC

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Provisioned IOPS SSD io1 volumes
Throughput Optimized HDD st1 volumes
Provisioned IOPS SSD io2 volumes
General Purpose SSD gp3 volumes

Correct Answer

Provisioned IOPS SSD io2 volumes

Explanation

Provisioned IOPS SSD io2 and io1 volumes both can be configured to deliver up to 64,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput, however only io2 volumes have a tiered pricing structure for your provisioned IOPS. General Purpose SSD gp3 volumes can be provisioned up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput. Throughput Optimized HDD st1 volumes are configurable for throughput only.

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