

io2 Block Express volumes are ideal for the largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Oracle databases, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, InterSystems database, and SAS Analytics. With io2 volumes running on Block Express, you can achieve sub-millisecond latency and provision a single io2 volume with up to 256,000 IOPS, 4,000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of capacity-a 4x increase in performance, throughput, and capacity for existing io2 volumes. Our highest performance io2 Block Express volume enables the first SAN in the Cloud. Block Express is a next-generation storage server architecture that provides the highest block storage performance without the cost or hassle of having to procure, scale, and maintain expensive on-premises SANs. These options are divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes (performance depends primarily on IOPS), and HDD-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, such as MapReduce and log processing (performance depends primarily on MB/s). Amazon EBS volumes are placed in a specific Availability Zone where they are automatically replicated to protect you from the failure of a single component. All EBS volume types offer durable snapshot capabilities and are designed for high availability.Īmazon EBS provides a range of options that allow you to optimize storage performance and cost for your workload.

Once attached, you can create a file system on top of these volumes, run a database, or use them in any other way you would use block storage. Amazon EBS allows you to create storage volumes and attach them to Amazon EC2 instances.
