Cloud, Big Data and Mobile

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a pre-configured operating system image that is used to create an EC2 instance within the Amazon cloud en...

The IOPS rate you get usually depends on the I/O size of your applications’ reads and writes.  It is very important to know the I/O size y...

Software RAID systems takes number of EBS Volumes and present them as one volume to the user. A RAID 0 (known as a striped volume) splits ...

New EBS Volumes always experience a “First Use Penalty” in AWS; means there will be a performance hit on the first write to an unused bloc...

Understanding the 10% statement of PIOPS “ Provisioned IOPS volumes are designed to deliver within 10% of your provisioned IOPS 99.9% of...

Understanding the latencies In general, it is impossible for a storage system to sustain the same peak IOPS number when presented with d...

Performance tuning Amazon EBS The performance of a block storage device is commonly measured and quoted in a unit called IOPS, short f...

Provisioned IOPS Volumes Provisioned IOPS Volumes is the latest type of EBS volumes introduced by AWS. They are also multi- tenant with ...

Types of EBS Volumes: EBS volumes can currently be classified into two types namely: Standard EBS Volumes & Provisioned IOPS Volum...

Applications can be often made to perform better and run faster by caching critical pieces of data in memory.  Frequently accessed data, l...