Announcing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS

It's about time, the performance of EBS is horrible. It's currently only available for 3 instance types. Hopefully they roll it out to more later on.

m1.large = 500 Mbps

m1.xlarge = 1000 Mbps

m2.4xlarge = 1000 Mbps

Pricing seems reasonable, if they can guarantee the performance, but it is a pain to have to pay more for something we should get out of the box.

One thing that isn't clear is if we still have to pay for I/O requests on the new Provisioned IOPS volumes.

This is what they say for pricing on their EBS page:

Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes

$0.125 per GB-month of provisioned storage

$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month

Amazon EBS Standard volumes

$0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage

$0.10 per 1 million I/O requests