The top performance of gp3 is 4 times faster than max throughput of gp2 volumes. Customers looking for higher performance can scale up to 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MiB/s for an additional fee. It is ideal for applications that require high performance at a low cost such as MySQL, Cassandra, virtual desktops and Hadoop analytics. Gp3 is designed to provide predictable 3,000 IOPS baseline performance and 125 MiB/s regardless of volume size. It lets customers independently increase IOPS and throughput without having to provision additional block storage capacity, paying only for the resources they need. The new gp3 is the 7th variation of EBS volume types. Even though gp2 offers a low price point, customers end up paying for storage they don’t need. Because the basic idea behind gp2 is that the larger the capacity, the faster the IOPS, customers may end up provisioning more storage capacity than desired. That said, some customers need higher performance. gp2 provides an easy and cost-effective way to meet the performance and throughput requirements of many applications our customers use such as virtual desktops, medium-sized databases such as SQLServer and OracleDB, and development and testing environments. We introduced general purpose SSD gp2 volumes in 2014 to offer SSD performance at a very low price. With EBS, customers can choose from multiple volume types based on the unique needs of their applications. Today I would like to tell you about gp3, a new type of SSD EBS volume that lets you provision performance independent of storage capacity, and offers a 20% lower price than existing gp2 volume types. Customers want to meet the performance requirements of these types of applications without paying for more storage volumes than they need. However some applications, such as MySQL, Cassandra, and Hadoop clusters, require high performance but not high storage capacity. By provisioning larger storage volume sizes, you can improve application input / output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput. Using existing general purpose solid state drive (SSD) gp2 volumes, performance scales with storage capacity. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy-to-use, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon EC2 instances for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads of all sizes.