The hourly price for EBS-optimized instances is in addition to the hourly usage fee for supported instance types.ĪWS GovCloud is an AWS Region designed to allow U.S. For Previous Generation Instances types, EBS-optimization prices are on the Previous Generation Pricing Page. When attached to EBS-optimized instances, Provisioned IOPS volumes can achieve single digit millisecond latencies and are designed to deliver within 10% of the provisioned IOPS performance 99.9% of the time.įor Current Generation Instance types, EBS-optimization is enabled by default at no additional cost. EBS-optimized instances are designed for use with both Standard and Provisioned IOPS Amazon EBS volumes. The dedicated throughput minimizes contention between Amazon EBS I/O and other traffic from your EC2 instance, providing the best performance for your EBS volumes. EBS-optimized instances deliver dedicated throughput between Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS, with options between 500 and 4,000 Megabits per second (Mbps) depending on the instance type used.
EBS-optimized instances enable EC2 instances to fully use the IOPS provisioned on an EBS volume.