EBS volume metrics - AWS Compute Optimizer
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EBS volume metrics

Compute Optimizer analyzes the following CloudWatch metrics of your EBS volumes.

Metric Description
VolumeReadBytes

The read bytes per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeWriteBytes

The write bytes per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeReadOps

The read operations per second of the EBS volume.
VolumeWriteOps

The write operations per second of the EBS volume.

For more information about these metrics, see Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.