New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | Amazon Web Services

We launched EBS Volumes with Provisioned IOPS way back in 2012. These volumes are a great fit for your most I/O-hungry and latency-sensitive applications because you can dial in the level of performance that you need, and then (with the launch of Elastic Volumes in 2017) change it later. Over the y…