AWS | EBS Disk Types

There are 4 types of EBS disk (at the time of writing) and it will depend on what you want to do with the disk to what type you use.

Below is a quick breakdown of each disk type and a description:

As you will see two options of SSD and HDD.

A very useful link that explains everything about ‘EBS Volume Types’. It covers off the older generation volume types as well as ‘I/O Credits and Burst Performance’.

This can be found here.