Benchmarking Amazon EBS Volumes

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In this lab, you will test the performance of different Amazon EBS volumes by simulating application I/O workloads using industry standard benchmarking tools (e.g. Flexible IO Tester or FIO) for Linux. You will then use CloudWatch to monitor and compare EBS volume performance.

Level

Advanced

Duration

1 Hours 0 Minutes

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Test the performance of different Amazon EBS volumes using FIO (Flexible IO Tester)
• Use CloudWatch to monitor the performance of different EBS volume types
• Use disk striping to optimize the performance of your Amazon EBS volumes
• Evaluate the volume types most suitable for your application workloads

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

• Infrastructure Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiarity with the AWS Management Console
• Basic knowledge of Amazon Elastic Block Store
• Understanding of different volume types such as SSD and HDD
• Understanding of different storage performance parameters like Throughput, IOPS, IO size, IO Latency, and Bandwidth

Course Outline

• Task 1: Explore your environment
• Task 2: Connect to the EC2 Instance and Install FIO
• Task 3: Make Amazon EBS volumes available for use on Linux
• Task 4: Benchmarking your Volumes
• Task 5: Use CloudWatch to review Throughput and IOPS performance
• Task 6: Optimize the performance of your Data volume through disk striping