Block storage pricing

AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for EC2 instances. Compare capacity, provisioned IOPS, and throughput pricing across all EBS volume types and AWS regions, and Google Cloud's Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk beside them.

AWS EBS volume types

gp2

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
View GP2 Rates →
gp3

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)
View GP3 Rates →
io1

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
View IO1 Rates →
io2

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
View IO2 Rates →
sc1

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
View SC1 Rates →
st1

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
View ST1 Rates →
standard

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
View STANDARD Rates →

Google Cloud Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk

pd-standard

Standard Persistent Disk

$0.04 / GiB month (us-central1)

HDD-backed Persistent Disk, the lowest price per GiB of the Persistent Disk types. Priced by provisioned capacity; the regional variant replicates the disk across two zones.

  • Billed on: capacity
  • Variants: Zonal and Regional
  • Regions: 46
View pd-standard rates →
pd-balanced

Balanced Persistent Disk

$0.10 / GiB month (us-central1)

SSD-backed Persistent Disk that balances price and performance. Priced by provisioned capacity; the regional variant replicates the disk across two zones.

  • Billed on: capacity
  • Variants: Zonal and Regional
  • Regions: 47
View pd-balanced rates →
pd-ssd

SSD Persistent Disk

$0.17 / GiB month (us-central1)

SSD-backed Persistent Disk for workloads that need lower latency than Balanced. Priced by provisioned capacity; the regional variant replicates the disk across two zones.

  • Billed on: capacity
  • Variants: Zonal and Regional
  • Regions: 45
View pd-ssd rates →
pd-extreme

Extreme Persistent Disk

$0.125 / GiB month (us-central1)

Persistent Disk with provisioned IOPS, for the most demanding databases. Billed for capacity plus every provisioned IOPS, with no free baseline.

  • Billed on: capacity, provisioned IOPS
  • Variants: Zonal
  • Regions: 47
View pd-extreme rates →
hyperdisk-balanced

Hyperdisk Balanced

$0.08 / GiB month (us-central1)

Google's general-purpose Hyperdisk. Billed for capacity plus provisioned IOPS and throughput above a free baseline of 3,000 IOPS and 140 MiB/s. The high availability variant replicates synchronously across two zones.

  • Billed on: capacity, provisioned IOPS, provisioned throughput
  • Variants: Zonal and High availability
  • Regions: 47
View hyperdisk-balanced rates →
hyperdisk-extreme

Hyperdisk Extreme

$0.125 / GiB month (us-central1)

Hyperdisk for applications that need more than 160,000 IOPS from one volume, such as high-performance databases. Billed for capacity plus every provisioned IOPS.

  • Billed on: capacity, provisioned IOPS
  • Variants: Zonal
  • Regions: 45
View hyperdisk-extreme rates →
hyperdisk-throughput

Hyperdisk Throughput

$0.005 / GiB month (us-central1)

Hyperdisk for cost-sensitive and analytics workloads that need high throughput. Billed for capacity plus every provisioned MBps.

  • Billed on: capacity, provisioned throughput
  • Variants: Zonal
  • Regions: 43
View hyperdisk-throughput rates →
hyperdisk-ml

Hyperdisk ML

$0.08 / GiB month (us-central1)

Hyperdisk for loading models and data into accelerators quickly. Billed for capacity plus every provisioned MBps; one volume can be attached to many VMs at no extra charge.

  • Billed on: capacity, provisioned throughput
  • Variants: Zonal
  • Regions: 47
View hyperdisk-ml rates →
snapshot-standard

Google Cloud standard snapshots

$0.05 / GiB month (us-central1)

Incremental backups of a disk, billed by the compressed data stored per month. Priced per region and per multi-region location.

  • Billed on: capacity
  • Variants: Zonal
  • Regions: 45
View snapshot-standard rates →
snapshot-archive

Google Cloud archive snapshots

$0.019 / GiB month (us-central1)

Lower-cost snapshots for backups you rarely restore, billed by the compressed data stored per month with a longer minimum storage period.

  • Billed on: capacity
  • Variants: Zonal
  • Regions: 47
View snapshot-archive rates →

All Google Cloud block storage →