
Amazon EBS expands General Purpose (gp3) volume limits, allowing up to 64 TiB size, 80,000 IOPS, and 2,000 MiB/s throughput, simplifying storage management for intensive workloads.


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Amazon EBS has expanded the limits for its General Purpose (gp3) volumes, offering significant performance and capacity improvements:
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<li>Maximum volume size increased from 16 TiB to 64 TiB (4X increase)</li>
<li>IOPS limit raised from 16,000 to 80,000 (5X increase)</li>
<li>Throughput expanded from 1,000 MiB/s to 2,000 MiB/s (2X increase)</li>
<li>Available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud Regions</li>
<li>Pricing model remains unchanged</li>
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These enhancements help reduce operational complexity for storage-intensive workloads, enabling easier volume consolidation and supporting containerized and single-volume architectures with improved performance.
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Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes

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