Tag: iops
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Chris Engelbert
Aug 7th, 2025 | 7 min read
Storage Tail Latency Matters: The Silent Killer
When we talk about storage performance, we typically think of IOPS and throughput. In the best case, we also talk about average or best-case access latency. However, tail latency, the high-percentile…
Rob Pankow
Oct 3rd, 2024 | 4 min read
Local NVMe Storage on AWS - Pros and Cons
The debate over the optimal storage solution has been ongoing. Local instance storage on AWS (i.e. ephemeral NVMe disk attached to EC2 instance) brings remarkable cost-performance ratios. It offers…
Michael Schmidt
Sep 19th, 2024 | 10 min read
Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes
When operating your stateful workloads in Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, data is commonly stored on Amazon’s EBS volumes. AWS supports a set of different volume types which offer different performance…
Chris Engelbert
Apr 24th, 2024 | 15 min read
IOPS vs Throughput vs Latency - Storage Performance Metrics
IOPS, throughput, and latency are interrelated metrics that provide insight into the read, write, and access performance of storage entities and network interconnects. IOPS means input/output…