DB Instance Storage Types

The database system is generally an important part of an IT system and has high requirements on storage I/O performance. You can select a storage type based on service demands. You cannot change the storage type after the DB instance is created.

Description

RDS supports Cloud SSD and Extreme SSD to suit different performance requirements of your workloads.

Cloud SSD
Stores data in cloud disks for decoupled storage and compute. The maximum throughput is 350 MB/s.

The supported IOPS depends on the I/O performance of the Elastic Volume Service (EVS) disk. For details, see "Ultra-high I/O" in Disk Types and Performance of the Elastic Volume Service Service Overview.
Extreme SSD
Uses 25GE network and RDMA technologies to provide you with up to 1,000 MB/s throughput per disk and sub-millisecond latency.

The supported IOPS depends on the I/O performance of the EVS disk. For details, see "Extreme SSD" in Disk Types and Performance of the Elastic Volume Service Service Overview.

Performance Comparison

**Table 1** Performance comparison
Item	Cloud SSD	Extreme SSD
I/O performance	Subpar I/O performance due to additional network I/O overheads	Higher I/O performance than cloud SSDs
Elastic scalability	Scaling in seconds	Scaling in seconds
Maximum IOPS	50,000	128,000
Maximum throughput	350 MB/s	1,000 MB/s
Read/write latency	1 ms	Sub-millisecond