<p>I have a question regarding support of AWS <code>gp3</code> on Kubernetes.</p>
<p>AWS announced <code>gp3</code> EBS volume type which shows better performance than existing <code>gp2</code>: <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html</a>.</p>
<p>But, from <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/#aws-ebs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kubernetes docs</a>, I could not see <code>gp3</code> support by Kubernetes. As I understand, Kubernetes does not support <code>gp3</code> for AWS yet.</p>
<p>Is my understanding correct or is there other documentation that I might have missed?</p>

<p>The question refers to the EBS in-tree storage plugin, <code>kubernetes.io/aws-ebs</code>, not the CSI one, <code>ebs.csi.aws.com</code>, which already supports gp3 volumes.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/1187" rel="noreferrer">this</a>, gp3 support will not be backported to the deprecated in-tree provisioner.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We do not have any plans to backport gp3 support to the deprecated
in-tree provisioner. Our focus right now is on getting the EBS CSI
driver to 1.0 release in preparation for enabling the CSIMigration
flag on EKS clusters.</p>
</blockquote>
