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Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes

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AWS·3 weeks ago · Jun 18, 2026, 07:00 AMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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General Purpose (gp3) volumes now support up to 64 TiB, 80,000 IOPS, and 2,000 MiB/s throughput (4‑8× previous limits).
You can attach up to three gp3 or io2 volumes per DB instance, raising total storage capacity to 256 TiB.
Pricing model unchanged – you only pay for the storage and any extra IOPS/throughput you provision.

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