A complete walkthrough of deploying simplyblock on AWS, from cluster initialization to running performance benchmarks against provisioned NVMe volumes.
This demo covers the end-to-end deployment: launching EC2 instances with local NVMe drives, initializing a simplyblock storage cluster, installing the Kubernetes CSI driver, provisioning PersistentVolumeClaims, and running FIO workloads to validate IOPS and latency targets.
Topics demonstrated:
- Simplyblock cluster setup on EC2 instances with NVMe instance storage
- CSI driver installation and StorageClass configuration
- Provisioning volumes and running Kubernetes workloads against simplyblock storage
- FIO benchmark results showing IOPS, throughput, and latency at microsecond scale
- Comparing simplyblock NVMe performance against EBS gp3 in the same environment
This demo is aimed at platform engineers and storage architects evaluating simplyblock as a replacement for Amazon EBS or for optimizing storage cost and performance on AWS.
See the simplyblock for AWS page for architecture details and cost analysis.