[jacobscott]

From Jeff Barr's blog post (http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ssd-backed-elastic-block...):

* A bucket is associated with each General Purpose (SSD) volume, and can hold up to 5.4 million tokens.

* Tokens accumulate at a rate of 3 per configured GB per second, up to the capacity of the bucket

I take this to mean that a 1TB GP SSD gets 3K tokens/sec = consistent 3K PIOPS. Can you explain where you disagree?

[e1g]

Thank you for correcting me. I disagreed after reading the same blog post, but after your explanation I realised I completely missed the baseline performance guarantee. Your math was spot on!