Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes provide a balance of price and performance, and offer flexibility for a wide range of applications. These volumes are suitable for a broad range of general-purpose workloads, such as virtual desktops, medium-sized single instances databases, and development and testing environments. They provide the ability to adjust IOPS and throughput independently. In contrast, Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 and io2) volumes are tailored for I/O intensive workloads requiring consistent and high performance, like critical business applications and databases, but come at a higher cost. Cold HDD (sc1) volumes are optimized for infrequently accessed data and Magnetic (standard) volumes offer the lowest cost per gigabyte of all EBS volume types but have higher latencies and are suited for workloads where data is infrequently accessed.