Be warned, you may run into a storage limit when attempting to provision an EBS volume. The limits are set on a combination of volume type and region. If you hit the limit, you’ll just have to contact AWS support to have them increase your limit.
When in doubt, check the EBS limits.
At the time of this writing, they are:
| Resource | Default Limit |
|---|---|
| Number of EBS volumes | 5,000 |
| Number of EBS snapshots | 10,000 |
Total volume storage of General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes |
20 TiB |
Total volume storage of Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) volumes |
20 TiB |
Total volume storage of Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) |
20 TiB |
Total volume storage of Cold HDD (sc1) |
20 TiB |
| Total volume storage of Magnetic volumes | 20 TiB |
| Total provisioned IOPS | 40,000 |
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