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Limits and Quotas

Quotas

The default Organization Quotas are set and can be expanded upon request:

UsageQuota
Volumes per Organization1000
Overall Provisioned Volume Size20 TiB

Limits

The following table shows which limits are enforced on Block Storage usage. It also highlights some of the characteristics of the product:

UsageLimit
Maximum number of volumes attached to an instance5
Maximum number of snapshot per volume20
Maximum volume size10 TiB
Minimum volume size1 GiB
Maximum read IOPS per volume5K
Maximum write IOPS per volume5K
Maximum bandwidth per volume200 MiB/s
Minimum instance size to attach a volumeSmall
Supported service offeringsAll
Block storage durability on snapshot guaranteeFull durability of data only when the volume is snapshotted

Note

As block storage volumes expose a block size of 4KiB, some software that incorrectly assume a smaller block size might not work. This issue can be circumvented by using a compatibility layer in your instance like dm-ebs on linux.

Availability

Block Storage is available in all zones.

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