Amazon EBS io2 Volume

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Volume

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 24, 2020– Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon Company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of io2, the next generation Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The new io2 volume is designed for 100x higher volume durability (99.999%) when compared to the 99.9% durability offered by io1 Amazon EBS volumes. Higher volume durability reduces the likelihood of storage failures and…