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What is Amazon EBS? Define Types of EBS Volume

Amazon Elastic Block Store   ( EBS ) is an easy to use, high performance block storage service designed for use with   Amazon  Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale. EBS Volume Types Following are the three types. EBS General Purpose (SSD) This volume type is suitable for small and medium workloads like Root disk EC2 volumes, small and medium database workloads, frequently logs accessing workloads, etc. By default, SSD supports 3 IOPS (Input Output Operations per Second)/GB means 1 GB volume will give 3 IOPS, and 10 GB volume will give 30 IOPS. Its storage capacity of one volume ranges from 1 GB to 1 TB. The cost of one volume is $0.10 per GB for one month. Provisioned IOPS (SSD) This volume type is suitable for the most demanding I/O intensive, transactional workloads and large relational, EMR and Hadoop workloads, etc. By default, IOPS SSD supports 30 IOPS/GB means 10GB volume will give 300 IOPS. Its stor...