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Update AWS Volume type support to include io1, io2, gp3

Chris Pollard requested to merge cpollard/docker-machine:FEATURE_supportAWSVolumeTypes into main

⚠ ️NOTE THAT THIS FORK IS MAINTAINED FOR CRITICAL BUG FIXES AFFECTING RUNNING COSTS ONLY. NO OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ⚠️

What critical bug this MR is fixing?

How does this change help reduce cost of usage? What scale of cost reduction is it?

The proposed changes help cut cost by allowing folks to use gp3 EBS volumes with higher minimum throughput. Today, someone that needs a 50 GB drive with 3000 IOPS would need to create a 1000 GB GP2 drive ( .125 * 1000 GB-Month = $125). This would allow someone to create a 50 GB gp3 drive that has 3000 IOPS (.08 * 50 GB-month = $4).

In what scenarios is this change usable with GitLab Runner's docker+machine executor?

In the event that you're using AWS EC2 instances as your gitlab runners and need more performance disk

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