# EBS volume metrics
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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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html) in the *Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide*.