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Choose an [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type that supports Amazon EBS optimization](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-optimized.html#ebs-optimization-support). An EBS-optimized EC2 instance provides dedicated network throughput for volumes.

To improve the performance of EBS volumes, complete the following tasks:

*   For best practices and performance tuning, see [Amazon EBS volume performance on Linux instances](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSPerformance.html).
*   Before you use an EBS volume that's restored from a snapshot, [initialize the volume](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-prewarm.html).
*   Use [AWS Trusted Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor) to get a list of best practices to improve the performance of your EBS volumes.

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[Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AmazonEBS.html)

[Amazon EBS-optimized instances](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-optimized.html)

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