Understanding Burst vs. Baseline Performance with Amazon …

Amazon RDS volume types. Amazon RDS volumes are built using Amazon EBS volumes, … The IOPS for a gp2 volume is the size of the volume in GiB x 3, with a minimum of 100 IOPS and a maximum of 10K IOPS. The gp2 volumes have a characteristic called burst mode that is often misunderstood. Let’s delve into the performance characteristics of gp2 …

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