EBS Magnetic volumes hard disk drives (HDDs) and can be used for workloads with smaller datasets where data is accessed infrequently or when performance consistency isn't of primary importance. EBS Magnetic volumes provide approximately 100 IOPS on average, with an ability to burst to hundreds of IOPS, and support volumes from 1GB to 1TB in size. If you need higher performance or performance consistency than EBS Magnetic can provide, we recommend that you consider Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) or other volume types. Learn More>>
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| EBS Magnetic | |
|---|---|
Volume Type |
EBS Magnetic |
Use Case |
Infrequent Data Access |
API Name |
standard |
Volume Size |
1 GB - 1 TB |
Max IOPS/Volume |
40-200 |
Max IOPS Burst Performance |
- |
Max Throughput/Volume |
40-90 MB/s |
Max Throughput Burst Performance |
- |
Max IOPS/Instance |
48,000 |
Max Throughput/Instance |
800 MB/s |
Price |
$0.05/GB-month $0.05/million I/O |
