GP2 (SSD)

GP2 (SSD): General purpose SSD volume that balances price and performance for a wide variety of workloads

  • Recommended for most workloads
    • System boot volumes
    • Virtual desktops
    • Low latency interactive apps
    • Development and test environments
  • 1 GiB - 16 TiB capacity
  • Small gp2 volumes can burst [[IOPS]] to 3000
  • Max [[IOPS]] is 16000
  • 3 [[IOPS]] per GB, means at 5334GB we are at the max [[IOPS]]