The following is a summary of performance and use cases for each volume type. General Purpose SSD volumes (gp2 and gp3) balance price and performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads.These volumes are ideal for use cases such as boot volumes, medium-size single instance databases, and development and test environments.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AmazonEBS.html

