It's about time, the performance of EBS is horrible. It's currently only available for 3 instance types. Hopefully they roll it out to more later on. m1.large

It's about time, the performance of EBS is horrible. It's currently only available for 3 instance types. Hopefully they roll it out to more later on. m1.large = 500 Mbps m1.xlarge = 1000 Mbps m2.4xlarge = 1000 Mbps Pricing seems reasonable, if they can guarantee the performance, but it is a pain to have to pay more for something we should get out of the box. One thing that isn't clear is if we still have to pay for I/O requests on the new Provisioned IOPS volumes. This is what they say for pricing on their EBS page: Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes $0.125 per GB-month of provisioned storage $0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month Amazon EBS Standard volumes $0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests