When should Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes be considered for SAP HANA workloads?

Please refer to the SAP Lens: Best Practice 14.2 – Select and configure EBS types aligned with performance requirements

io2 Block Express is a good option for SAP HANA workloads when you understand and have validated the performance and reliability requirements of your system or witness performance bottlenecks for the following items:

• you need more than 16,000 IOPS or 1,000 MB/s of throughput from a single volume for your SAP HANA data or log file systems
• you need sub millisecond latency for your SAP HANA log volume
• you require storage durability exceeding 99.9% for a single volume. io2 offers 99.999% durability for a single volume
• you need to be able to scale a single volume to up to 64TB

NOTE: This answer is provided by the SAP on AWS speciality team and is accurate at the time of publish. Please check comments as the answer may have changed/services evolved.