The document discusses updates to Amazon Web Services in London regarding improved storage performance options. It introduces provisioned IOPS for EBS volumes, which allows specifying input/output operations per second. It also covers EBS-optimized EC2 instances for dedicated throughput to EBS storage, and using provisioned IOPS with RDS. A new high I/O EC2 instance type is presented as well for workloads requiring high random I/O performance. Pricing and customer examples are provided for these different performance-optimized storage and compute options on AWS.

1. Amazon Web Services Update | London
November 2012

2. Performance Update and
Provisioned IOPS
Ianni Vamvadelis, Solutions Architect

3. Agenda
EBS Provisioned IOPS
EBS Optimised Instances
RDS and Provisioned IOPS
High IO Instance Type

4. EBS
Provisioned IOPS
New Volume Type

5. What are IOPS?

6. The total number of
input / output (I/O)
operations
per second
(when performing a mix of read and write)

7. Elastic Block Storage

8. Elastic Block Storage

9. Input/Output Operations per Second
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS

10. Volume Types
1000 IOPS

11. Input/Output Operations per Second
2000 IOPs per Volume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS

12. Volume Types
AWS Management Console -> EC2 -> Volumes -> Create

13. Volume Types

14. Elastic Block Storage

15. Provisioned IOPS Volume
Attach and Copy
STANDARD PROVISIONED IOPS
Volume Volume
Moving from between volume types

16. Provisioned IOPS Volume
STANDARD PROVISIONED IOPS
Volume EBS
Volume
Snapshot
Moving from between volume types

17. Pricing

18. Cost: Provisioned IOPS

19. Pricing: Provisioned IOPS
Scenario: 100 GB volume, requiring 100 IOPS all month long:
1 IOP/second = ~ 2.6 Million IOPS/month
100 IOP/second = ~260 Million IOPS/month
Standard Volumes Provisioned IOPs Volume
100 GB storage 11c* 100 = $11 0.138c *100GB = $13.80
100 IOPS all month 260 million IOs x 11c = $28.60 130 * 11c = $14.30
Total $ 39.60 / month $ 28.10 / month
Provision some headroom

20. EBS Optimised Instances

21. Normal EC2 Instances

22. EBS Optimised EC2 Instances
Dedicated Throughput to EBS

23. Launching EBS Optimised Instances

24. Launching EBS Optimised Instances

25. Moving to EBS Optimised Instances

26. Change to EBS Optimised Instances

27. EBS Optimised EC2 Instances
http://www.stratalux.com/2012/08/09/putting-amazon%E2%80%99s-provisioned-iops-to-the-test/

28. EBS Optimised EC2 Instances
Parse.com
http://blog.parse.com/2012/09/17/parse-databases-upgraded-to-amazon-provisioned-iops/

29. Pricing

30. Pricing: EBS Optimised Instances
On Demand Price
$0.340 per Hour
$0.680 per Hour
$2.024 per Hour

31. RDS and Provisioned IOPS

32. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
Choice of Database Engines and
App. compatibility
Ease of Deployment and
Patching
Automated Backups and
Disaster Recovery
User Snapshots and Cloning
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Push Button Scalability
Monitoring and Auto. Host
Replacement

33. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
10:1 Ratio of IOPS:GB allocated

34. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
New DB

35. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
New DB

36. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
Modify Existing DB

37. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
Modify Existing DB IOPS

38. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
Optimised for PIOPS

39. RDS Read Replica – Scale Reads

40. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
New Read Replica

41. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
New Read Replica

42. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
Multi-AZ deployment

43. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
+ RDS + PIOPS =
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

44. Amazon Relational Database Server (RDS)
Standard Volumes Provisioned IOPS
Batch processing Online Transaction Processing
Latency insensitive workloads Latency sensitive Random I/O
Pay as you Go I/O costs Provisioned I/O Cost

45. Pricing

46. Hi I/O Instance

47. EC2 Instance Types

48. EC2 Instance Types

49. High I/O Instance
hi1.4xlarge

50. Elastic Block Storage
VM
Workspace
Amazon S3
EBS EBS
Snapshot
EBS
Snapshot
EBS
Network Snapshot
IO
Hypervisor
Ephemeral Disks EBS Volumes EBS Snapshots
Data Durability

51. High I/O Instance
hi1.4xlarge

52. Pricing

53. Customer experience
http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-performance-io-with.html

54. Agenda
• EBS Provisioned IOPS
• EBS Optimised Instances
• RDS and Provisioned IOPS
• High IO Instance Type