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I'm working on graduate research evaluating AWS control and data plane performance.

EBS volume attachment is typically ~11s for GP2/GP3 and ~20-25s for other types.

1ms read / 5ms write latencies seem high for 4k blocks. IO1/IO2 is typically ~0.5ms RW, and GP2/GP3 ~0.6ms read and ~0.94ms write.

References: https://cloudlooking.glass/matrix/#aws.ebs.us-east-1--cp--at... https://cloudlooking.glass/matrix/#aws.ebs.*--dp--rand-*&aws...

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You might want to add the bit from the blog about worst-case attach times to your research. From my own experience (though it was years ago), sometimes an EBS volume would fail and simply never return. Definitely won't be acceptable for some use cases

Yes, we've been testing volume attachments every 5m since start of the year, and have experienced 100-150 attachment failures per volume type in that time frame during multiple events (most recently last week):

https://cloudlooking.glass/dashboard/#aws.ebs.us-east-1--cp-...

Another interesting bit, is last March AWS changed something in the control plane which both triggered a multi-day LSE, and ultimately increased attachment times from 2-3s to 10-20s (also visible in the graphs).

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