AWS Block Storage (EBS) Pricing
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 compute instances. Compare capacity, provisioned IOPS, and throughput pricing across all EBS volume types and AWS regions.
EBS Volume Types
General Purpose SSD
$0.1000 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Previous generation General Purpose SSD where baseline IOPS performance scales linearly with allocated volume size.
- Capacity: 1 GiB – 16 TiB
- Max IOPS: 16,000 IOPS (3 IOPS/GiB)
- Throughput: 250 MiB/s
General Purpose SSD
$0.0800 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Lowest cost SSD volume that balances price and performance for a wide variety of transactional and system workloads.
- Capacity: 1 GiB – 16 TiB
- Max IOPS: 16,000 IOPS (3,000 free)
- Throughput: 1,000 MiB/s (125 free)
Provisioned IOPS SSD
$0.1250 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Previous generation high-performance Provisioned IOPS SSD for I/O intensive databases and business workloads.
- Capacity: 4 GiB – 16 TiB
- Max IOPS: 64,000 IOPS
- Throughput: 1,000 MiB/s
Provisioned IOPS SSD
$0.1250 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Highest durability (99.999%) and performance SSD engineered for latency-sensitive, mission-critical SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Capacity: 4 GiB – 64 TiB
- Max IOPS: 256,000 IOPS
- Throughput: 4,000 MiB/s
Cold HDD
$0.0150 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Lowest cost magnetic HDD volume engineered for less frequently accessed data and sequential streaming workloads.
- Capacity: 125 GiB – 16 TiB
- Max IOPS: 250 IOPS
- Throughput: 250 MiB/s
Throughput Optimized HDD
$0.0450 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Low cost HDD volume designed for frequently accessed, sequential throughput-intensive workloads like MapReduce, Kafka, and ETL.
- Capacity: 125 GiB – 16 TiB
- Max IOPS: 500 IOPS
- Throughput: 500 MiB/s
Magnetic
$0.0500 / GB-month (us-east-1)
Previous generation magnetic storage volume for infrequently accessed workloads with small storage footprints.
- Capacity: 1 GiB – 1 TiB
- Max IOPS: 100 IOPS
- Throughput: Variable