AWS General Purpose SSD (gp2, gp3)

• Volume Type: EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3)
• Short Description: General Purpose SSD volume that balances price performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
• Use Cases: virtual desktops, medium sized single instance databases such as MSFT SQL Server and Oracle DB, low-latency interactive apps, dev & test, boot volumes
• API Name: gp3
• Volume Size: 1 GB – 16 TB
• Durability: 99.8% - 99.9% durability
• Max IOPS*/Volume: 16,000
• Max Throughput**/Volume: 1000 MB/s
• Max IOPS/Instance: 260,000
• Max Throughput/Instance: 12,500 MB/s
• Latency: single digit millisecond
• Storage Price: $0.08/GB-month
• Provisioned Performance Price: 3,000 IOPS free and $0.005/provisioned IOPS-month over 3,000 IOPS; 125 MB/s free and $0.04/provisioned MB/s-month over 125 MiBps
• Dominant Performance Attribute: $/IOPS

EKS

EKS
 kubectl get storageclass
 NAME            PROVISIONER             RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
 gp2 (default)   kubernetes.io/aws-ebs   Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  11d

kubectl describe storageclass gp2
kubectl describe storageclass gp3

kubectl get pv
kubectl get pvc

News

• Nov 2022 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-rds-general-purpose-gp3-storage-volumes/ 3,000 IOPS baseline and up to 64,000 IOPS
• Dec 2020 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introducing-new-amazon-ebs-general-purpose-volumes-gp3/ EBS volumes without interrupting their Amazon EC2 instances

Related

• kubectl get pvc
• Amazon S3 Storage Classes
• SSD
• aws-ebs-csi-driver
• AWS savings
• efs

See also

• SSD, Intel Optane, NAND, V-NAND or 3D V-NAND, NVMe, NVM
• EBS, EBS Snapshots (archive), aws ebs, io1, io2, gp2, gp3, st1, sc1, aws_ebs_snapshot, aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/volume-types/