What are the types of EBS volumes in AWS?

Question

Can you explain the types in short?

Answer 1

There are two volume categories:

1. SSD-backed volumes and

2. HDD-backed volumes

SSD-backed volumes are optimized for frequent read/write operations with small I/O size

The following are its types:

                1. General Purpose SSD (gp2)

                2. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)

                3. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2)

HDD-backed volumes are optimized for large streaming workloads where the throughput is measured in MiB/s.

The following are its types:

                1. Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)

                2. Cold HDD (sc1)

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