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Persistent Volume Storage (PVS)

Block volumes that attach to your instances: gp1 at 7K IOPS per 100 GiB, from 0,0476 € per GiB/month. Snapshot and restore any volume. Latency-optimised (io1) and capacity-optimised (st1) classes are planned.

  • Erasure-Coded Redundancy
  • Up to 14K IOPS per 100 GiB
  • Snapshots & Restore

Features

Published IOPS per Class

gp1 delivers 7,000 IOPS per 100 GiB provisioned. The number scales with the volume, not the instance it's attached to. The planned io1 class is designed for 14,000.

Flexible Volume Options

General Purpose (gp1) is the class on sale today, and the default when you don't name one. Latency Optimized (io1) and Capacity Optimized (st1) are planned — see what each class is for.

Scalable Capacity

Grow a volume in place as your data grows — resizing is a single API call.

Use Cases

Databases

Postgres or MySQL on gp1 — 7K IOPS per 100 GiB, scaling with the volume you provision.

Data Warehousing

Bulk datasets on gp1, attached to compute instances for analytics runs. A cheaper capacity-optimised class (st1) is planned.

Backup and Recovery

Snapshot a volume and restore it to a new one when you need it — protect the snapshot first, and it can back an image too.