> I shouldn't be surprised. The red flag was flying as soon as IOP was used in singular form. > Input/Output Per. IOPS can also be "I/O operations per second"

> I shouldn't be surprised. The red flag was flying as soon as IOP was used in singular form. > Input/Output Per. IOPS can also be "I/O operations per second" and in that context "1 IOP" is a meaningful quantity. Particularly when AWS and other cloud providers sell capacity in units of IOPS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-io-characteristics.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-io-c...