EBS Pricing Calculator - Compare All Volume Types

This EBS pricing calculator uses official AWS pricing data updated regularly from Amazon's public pricing API. It accounts for regional pricing differences, tiered IOPS rates, and free tier benefits. For production budgets, verify final costs in the AWS Billing console since pricing occasionally changes.

gp3 is recommended for most workloads. It offers 20% lower storage costs than gp2 and lets you provision IOPS and throughput independently. gp3 includes a baseline of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s at no extra cost. Only use gp2 for legacy applications that require burst performance based on storage size.

Use io2 volumes for I/O-intensive workloads requiring more than 16,000 IOPS or 99.999% durability. io2 is ideal for critical databases like Oracle, SAP HANA, and Microsoft SQL Server. io2 Block Express supports up to 256,000 IOPS and 4,000 MB/s throughput.

Use st1 (Throughput Optimized HDD) for frequently accessed, throughput-intensive workloads like big data, data warehouses, and log processing. Use sc1 (Cold HDD) for infrequently accessed data where the lowest storage cost is important. Note: HDD volumes cannot be used as boot volumes.

EBS snapshots are stored incrementally - only the changed blocks since the last snapshot are charged. The first snapshot copies the entire volume. Snapshot storage is priced per GB-month. You can also use Snapshot Archive for long-term storage at lower cost with longer retrieval times.