Wednesday, 14 March 2018

AWS EC2 (Instance Storage)


TRIM
  • Notify disk controller that data is no longer needed (reduces write amplification)
  • Volume must be formatted on first use

Storage
  • Directly Attached Storage (DAS)
  • Virtual devices: ephemeral[0-23]
  • Redundancy use: RAID 1/5/6
  • Number of and type of volumes depends on instance type
    • HDD, SSD, n SSD with TRIM support (up to 48TB)
  • Device block mapping must be specified on launch (not stop->start)
  • Use latest kernel for optimal performance

Use cases


  • Buffers
  • Caches
  • Scratch Data
  • Swap 
  • Very high IOPS (RAID 0)
    • i2 (> 300K IOPS)

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