Amazon EBS Doubles Maximum Performance of Provisioned IOs SSD (io1) Volumes

From 32,000 to 64,000 IO/s and from 500MB/s to 1,000MB/s of throughput per volume when attached to Nitro system EC2 instances

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on December 3, 2018 at 2:21 pm

AWS announced 2x improvement in peak performance of Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Volumes from 32,000 IO/s to 64,000 IOs and from 500MB/s to 1,000MB/s of throughput per volume when attached to Nitro system EC2 instances.

These performance improvements make it easier to run applications requiring high performance storage, such as large transactional databases, big data analytics, and log processing applications.

These faster volumes are available in commercial regions worldwide and AWS GovCloud (US) regions.

Resource:
Amazon Elastic Block Store features page