Lower Cost
The Lower Cost elastic performance option is recommended for throughput intensive workloads with large sequential I/O, such as streaming, log processing, and data warehouses.
This option gives you linear scaling 2 IOPS/GB upt to a maximum of 3000 IOPS per volume. Throughput scales at 240 KB/s/GB up to the maximum of 480 MB/s per volume.
The following table lists the Block Volume service's throughput and IOPS performance numbers based on volume size for this option. IOPS and KB/s performance scales linearly per GB volume size up to the service maximums so you can predictably calculate the performance numbers for a specific volume size. If you're trying to achieve certain performance targets for volumes configured to use the Lower Cost elastic performance option you can provision a minimum volume size using this table as a reference.
|
Volume Size |
Max Throughput (1 MB block size) |
Max Throughput (8 KB block size) |
Max IOPS (4 KB block size) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 GB | 12 MB/s | 0.8 MB/s | 100 |
| 100 GB | 24 MB/s | 1.6 MB/s | 200 |
| 200 GB | 48 MB/s | 3.2 MB/s | 400 |
| 300 GB | 72 MB/s | 4.8 MB/s | 600 |
| 400 GB | 96 MB/s | 6.4 MB/s | 800 |
| 500 GB | 120 MB/s | 8 MB/s | 1000 |
| 750 GB | 180 MB/s | 12 MB/s | 1500 |
| 1 TB | 240 MB/s | 16 MB/s | 2000 |
| 1.5 TB - 32 TB | 480 MB/s | 23 MB/s | 3000 |