EBS HD Types

Question 1

gp3 (General Purpose SSD)

Answer 1

• Most workloads
• including databases
• dev/test enviornments

Question 2

gp2 (General Purpose SSD)

Answer 2

• Boot volumes
• dev/test
• general workloads

Question 3

io2 (Provisioned IOPS SSD)

Answer 3

• High-performance databases
• Critical databases

Question 4

io1 (Provisioned IOPS SSD)

Answer 4

Database requiring high IOPS

Question 5

st1 (Throughput Optimized HDD)

Answer 5

• Streaming
• Big data
• Log processing

Question 6

sc1 (Cold HDD)

Answer 6

• Archival Storage
• Infrequent Access Workloads

Question 7

Magnetic (standard)

Answer 7

• Legacy workloads
• Small Boot Volumes