Why You Should Migrate Your EBS Volumes From gp2 to gp3

Are you looking for a way to save up to 20% on costs and at the same time improve performance?

Simple Solution: Migrate your EBS volumes from gp2 to gp3.

GP2 EBS Volumes

The gp2 (General Purpose SSD) EBS volumes are a cost-effective way for AWS customers to get SSD (Solid State Drive) performance for various applications, like virtual desktops, medium-sized databases, and development environments.

They’re easy to use, but their performance depends on the size you choose. For some applications, like MySQL, Cassandra, and Hadoop clusters, you may need high performance but not much storage.

In these cases, you would have to get a bigger gp2 volume to get better performance, which could mean you’re paying for more storage than you need.

GP3 EBS Volumes

In December 2020, AWS introduced the gp3 EBS storage. It’s designed to offer a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MiB/s, no matter how big the storage is.

With gp3, you can set the performance and speed separately, without having to increase the storage size. It can cost up to 20% less per GB than the…