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VolumeSpecification - Amazon EMR

VolumeSpecification

EBS volume specifications such as volume type, IOPS, size (GiB) and throughput (MiB/s) that are requested for the EBS volume attached to an Amazon EC2 instance in the cluster.

Contents

SizeInGB

The volume size, in gibibytes (GiB). This can be a number from 1 - 1024. If the volume type is EBS-optimized, the minimum value is 10.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

VolumeType

The volume type. Volume types supported are gp3, gp2, io1, st1, sc1, and standard.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Iops

The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) that the volume supports.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Throughput

The throughput, in mebibyte per second (MiB/s). This optional parameter can be a number from 125 - 1000 and is valid only for gp3 volumes.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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