When Just IOPS Aren’t Enough – Optimal EBS Bandwidth Calculation
The current EBS features in Amazon EC2 environment offers really good performance and the marketing material and documentation boosts how different EBS types give IOPS, but a lesser talked thing is the bandwidth which EBS can offer. Traditional SATA attached magnetic hard disks can usually provide speeds from 40-150 MiB/s but really low amount of IOPS …