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High-performance storage

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Now, let's talk about high-performance storage options available with AWS. Amazon Elastic Block Store or EBS, provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. You mount these volumes to your instances and use them like you would use a physical hard drive. EBS volumes are available in different types. Solid-state drive or SSD volumes, hard disk drive or HDD volumes, and magnetic volumes. SSD volumes generally provide better performance than HDD volumes. SSD volumes are available as general purpose and provisioned IOPS volumes. Provisioned IOPS volumes provide the highest performance for SSD volumes. They are designed for critical IOPS intensive and throughput intensive workloads that require low latency. Provisioned IOPS volumes provide sub millisecond latency, storage capacity up to 64 TB bytes, IOPS up to 256,000, and volume throughput up to 4,000 MiB/s. So provision IOPS volumes can be a good fit for high-performance databases, big data, high-performance computing…

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