April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
11h 57m
English
EBS storage can be broadly divided into two distinct storage types—solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD):
SSD-backed volumes are optimized for transactional workloads involving frequent read/write operations with a small I/O size, where the dominant performance attribute is I/O operations per second (IOPS).
HDD-backed volumes are optimized for large streaming workloads where throughput (measured in MiB/s) is a better performance measure than IOPS.
EBS has four main types of storage, and each is suited for a specific use case:
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