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AWS ebs documentation change

Service: ebs · 2025-09-28 · Documentation low

File: ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.md

Summary

Updated gp3 volume specifications (max IOPS, throughput, size) and added tip recommending io2 Block Express for latency-sensitive workloads

Security assessment

The changes document performance improvements and feature updates for EBS volumes but contain no security-related context or vulnerability fixes.

Diff

diff --git a/ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.md b/ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.md
index 1121b992e..e16614c6a 100644
--- a//ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.md
+++ b//ebs/latest/userguide/general-purpose.md
@@ -27,0 +28,4 @@ gp3 volumes provide single-digit millisecond latency and 99.8 percent to 99.9 pe
+###### Tip
+
+For latency-sensitive workloads, we recommend that you use io2 Block Express volumes. `io2` Block Express volumes are designed to deliver an average latency of under 500 microseconds for 16KiB I/O operations. `io2` Block Express volumes also deliver better outlier latency compared to General Purpose volumes, reducing the frequency of I/Os exceeding 800 microseconds by over 10 times. For more information, see [Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) Block Express volumes](./provisioned-iops.html#io2-block-express).
+
@@ -47 +51 @@ gp3 volumes do not use burst performance. They can indefinitely sustain their fu
-gp3 volumes deliver a consistent baseline IOPS performance of 3,000 IOPS, which is included with the price of storage. You can provision additional IOPS (up to a maximum of 16,000) for an additional cost at a ratio of 500 IOPS per GiB of volume size. Maximum IOPS can be provisioned for volumes 32 GiB or larger (500 IOPS per GiB × 32 GiB = 16,000 IOPS).
+gp3 volumes deliver a consistent baseline IOPS performance of 3,000 IOPS, which is included with the price of storage. You can provision additional IOPS (up to a maximum of 80,000) for an additional cost at a ratio of 500 IOPS per GiB of volume size. Maximum IOPS can be provisioned for volumes 160 GiB or larger (500 IOPS per GiB × 160 GiB = 80,000 IOPS).
@@ -51 +55 @@ gp3 volumes deliver a consistent baseline IOPS performance of 3,000 IOPS, which
-gp3 volumes deliver a consistent baseline throughput performance of 125 MiB/s, which is included with the price of storage. You can provision additional throughput (up to a maximum of 1,000 MiB/s) for an additional cost at a ratio of 0.25 MiB/s per provisioned IOPS. Maximum throughput can be provisioned at 4,000 IOPS or higher and 8 GiB or larger (4,000 IOPS × 0.25 MiB/s per IOPS = 1,000 MiB/s).
+gp3 volumes deliver a consistent baseline throughput performance of 125 MiB/s, which is included with the price of storage. You can provision additional throughput (up to a maximum of 2,000 MiB/s) for an additional cost at a ratio of 0.25 MiB/s per provisioned IOPS. Maximum throughput can be provisioned at 8,000 IOPS or higher and 16 GiB or larger (8,000 IOPS × 0.25 MiB/s per IOPS = 2,000 MiB/s).
@@ -55 +59 @@ gp3 volumes deliver a consistent baseline throughput performance of 125 MiB/s, w
-A gp3 volume can range in size from 1 GiB to 16 TiB.
+A gp3 volume can range in size from 1 GiB to 64 TiB.