EBS Flashcards
Recommended for most workloads; Can be used as system boot volumes; Best for development and test environments
General Purpose SSD
Meant for critical business applications that require sustained IOPS performance; Best used for large database workloads
Provisioned IOPS SSD
Solid State Drive (SSD) Types
General Purpose SSD
Provisioned IOPS SSD
Hard Disk Drive (HHD) Types
Throughput Optimized HHD
Cold HHD
Meant for streaming workloads requiring consistent, fast throughput at a low price, big data, data warehouses, and log processing. It cannot be a boot volume
Throughput Optimized HHD
Meant for throughput-oriented storage for large volumes of data that infrequently accessed, or I’m scenarios where the lowest storage cost is important. It cannot be a boot volume
Cold HHD