Best practices for Amazon RDS for SQL Server with Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes up to 64 TiB

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes. These volumes are designed to support all your critical database workloads that demand high performance, high throughput, and consistently low latency. io2 Block Express volumes support 99.999% durability, up to 64 TiB storage, up to 4,000 MiB/s throughput, and up to 256,000 Provisioned IOPS for your most demanding database needs, at the same price as EBS io1 volumes. In this post, we share best practices to use the io2 Block Express volumes with RDS for SQL Server DB instances.