RDS support three storage types. As with EC2, in this case as well, these different storage types differ based on their performance characteristics and cost. You can choose the appropriate storage type depending on the workload that you plan to run on the RDS DB instance. These are the same storage types that we discussed in Chapter 6, AWS Elastic Compute Cloud.
- General Purpose SSD: These are called GP2. These volumes have burstable capability up to 3000 IOPS. GP2 are mostly suitable for preproduction environment. GP2 volume can range from 5 GB to 6 TB for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. For SQL Server DB instances, it can range from 20 GB to 4 TB.
- Provisioned IOPS: If you are looking for consistent IOPS for your database workload, then this type of storage is more suitable. This storage type is mostly recommended for your production workload. Allocating...