AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports up to 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express volumes

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now offers enhanced storage and performance capabilities, supporting up to 64TiB of storage and 256,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS) with io2 Block Express volumes. This represents an improvement from the previous limit of 16 TiB and 64,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express. These enhancements enable transactional databases and data warehouses to handle larger workloads on a single Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server database instance.

The support for 64TiB and 256,000 IOPS with io2 Block Express for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now generally available in all AWS regions where both Amazon RDS io2 Block Express volumes and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server are currently supported.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and includes the ability to bring your own licensed SQL Server media or use SQL Server Developer Edition while providing the time-savings, durability, and scalability benefits of a managed database service. To get started, visit the Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server User Guide. See Amazon RDS Custom Pricing for up-to-date pricing of instances, storage, data transfer and regional availability.
 

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