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EBS volumes comes only as hard-disk drives (HDDs)

publish date2024/08/06 07:05:00 UTC

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Correct Answer

False

Explanation

EBS volumes are organized into two main categories: solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard-disk drives (HDDs). SSDs are used for transactional workloads with frequent read/write operations with small I/O size. HDDs are used for large streaming workloads that need high throughput performance.  AWS offers two types of each.

SSD Volumes

General Purpose 
SSD volumes
Provisioned IOPS 
SSD volumes
Volume type gp3 gp2 io2 Block Express io2 io1
Description Provides a balance of price and performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
Provides high-performance SSD designed for latency-sensitive transactional workloads

 

Volume size 1 GiB–16 TiB 4 GiB–64 TiB 4GiB–16 TiB
Max IOPS 
per volume
16,000 256,000 64,000
Max throughput per volume 1,000 MiB/s 250 MiB/s 4,000 MiB/s 1,000 MiB/s
Amazon EBS Multi-attach Not supported Supported

 

HDD Volumes

Throughput Optimized HDD volumes Cold HDD volumes
Volume type st1 sc1
Description A low-cost HDD designed for frequently accessed, throughput-intensive workloads The lowest cost HDD designed for less frequently accessed workloads
Volume size 125 GiB–16 TiB
Max IOPS per volume 500 250
Max throughput per volume 500 MiB/s 250 MiB/s
Amazon EBS Multi-attach Not supported

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