SAP on AWS · AnyDB on AWS: SQL Server, Oracle, ASE, MaxDB, Db2

For SQL Server or Oracle data and log on AWS, which EBS volume types are actually SAP-certified, and which one gives sub-millisecond latency for a production Oracle database?

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