AWS General Purpose SSD (gp2, gp3)

EKS

EKS
 kubectl get storageclass
 NAME            PROVISIONER             RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
 gp2 (default)   kubernetes.io/aws-ebs   Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  11d

kubectl describe storageclass gp2
kubectl describe storageclass gp3

News

• Nov 2022 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-rds-general-purpose-gp3-storage-volumes/ 3,000 IOPS baseline and up to 64,000 IOPS
• Dec 2020 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/introducing-new-amazon-ebs-general-purpose-volumes-gp3/

Related

• kubectl get pvc
• Amazon S3 Storage Classes
• SSD
• aws-ebs-csi-driver
• AWS savings

See also

• SSD, Intel Optane, NAND, V-NAND or 3D V-NAND, NVMe, NVM
• EBS, EBS Snapshots (archive), aws ebs, io1, io2, gp2, gp3, st1, sc1, aws_ebs_snapshot, aws_dlm_lifecycle_policy