Monday, April 8, 2013

Part 5: Understanding Amazon Elastic Block Store Performance: Latency


Understanding the latencies
In general, it is impossible for a storage system to sustain the same peak IOPS number when presented with different I/O types and latency requirements.  Only IOPS numbers alone are meaningless without considering additional metrics such as latency, read/write % and I/O block size etc.
Latency is a measure of how long it takes for a single I/O request to happen from the apps perspective. High Latency and variance is not preferred when it comes to database applications. Database makes variety of requests and ideally IO latency needs to be under 10ms and write especially under 5ms. Example: In Oracle DB with for heavy writes, the redo log under 1ms is preferred. On the other hand, applications doing sequential, throughput-driven I/O (like backup or archival) typically don’t need high IOPS, but rather need high MB/s.
PIOPS Volumes delivers consistent level of latency and performance than standard EBS Volumes on random reads and random read/writes.  In the benchmark conducted by parse, PIOPS showed latency between 0-0.6 seconds and Standard EBS volumes showed 0.0 to 2.5 seconds. Refer URL:

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