IOPS stands for Input/Output Operations Per Second. It’s a key performance metric used to measure how many read and write operations a storage system (like an EBS volume) can perform each second.
throughput refers to the rate at which data is transferred or processed over a system. It’s typically measured in megabytes per second (MB/s or MiB/s)
maximum size of an EBS (Elastic Block Store) volume is 16TB per volume
gp2 stands for General Purpose SSD (Solid State Drive) volume type in Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
There are five main types of EBS volumes
1.General Purpose SSD (gp3)
2. Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2/io1)
3.Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
4.Cold HDD (sc1)
5.Magnetic (Standard) [Deprecated]