New High Performance Storage Option for Running Databases in the AWS
Cloud
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2012--
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced new features for customers looking to run high
performance databases in the cloud with the launch of Amazon Elastic
Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned IOPS. Provisioned IOPS
(input/output operations per second) are a new EBS volume type designed
to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O intensive workloads,
such as database applications, that rely on consistent and fast response
times. With Provisioned IOPS, customers can flexibly specify both volume
size and volume performance, and Amazon EBS will consistently deliver
the desired performance over the lifetime of the volume. To get started
with Amazon EBS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
Provisioned IOPS volumes are engineered to allow customers to develop,
test, and deploy production applications and be confident that they will
receive their desired performance. With a few clicks in the AWS
Management Console, customers can create an EBS volume provisioned with
the storage and IOPS they need and attach it to their Amazon EC2
instance. Amazon EBS currently supports up to 1,000 IOPS per Provisioned
IOPS volume, with plans to deliver higher limits soon. Customers can
attach multiple Amazon EBS volumes to an Amazon EC2 instance and stripe
across them to deliver thousands of IOPS to their application.
To enable Amazon EC2 instances to fully utilize the IOPS provisioned on
an EBS volume, Amazon EC2 is introducing the ability to launch selected
Amazon EC2 instance types as EBS-Optimized instances. EBS-Optimized
instances deliver dedicated throughput between Amazon EC2 and Amazon
EBS, with options between 500 Megabits per second and 1,000 Megabits per
second depending on the instance type used. The combination of EBS
Provisioned IOPS and EBS-Optimized instances allows customers to run
their most performance-sensitive applications on Amazon EC2, giving them
predictable scaling with the same ease of use, durability, and
flexibility of provisioning benefits they expect from Amazon EC2 and
Amazon EBS.
“AWS introduced Amazon EBS in 2008 to provide a highly scalable virtual
storage service and now, four years later, our customers are running
applications on Amazon EC2 using EBS volumes at tremendous scale,” said
Peter De Santis, Vice President of Amazon EC2. “Customers have been
asking for the ability to set their performance rate to achieve
consistently high performance. With EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes,
EBS-Optimized instances and the recently launched High I/O SSD-based EC2
instances, customers have a range of choices for running their most
demanding applications and databases on AWS while achieving peak
performance in a predictable manner.”
At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Amazon EBS is used to support
various missions and research programs. Consistent performance of I/O is
a major requirement for numerous use cases across NASA ranging from
scientific computing to large scale database deployments. JPL now
routinely provisions cloud compute capacity in an elastic manner but
database latencies have proven difficult. To help meet this challenge,
JPL’s missions and its Office of the CIO prototyped the new EBS
Provisioned IOPS capability to provision flexible compute capacity and
overcome database latency restrictions. The results were highly
successful and the release of EBS Provisioned IOPS, coupled with Amazon
EC2 High I/O SSD-based instances, will introduce a whole new realm of
I/O intensive scientific applications for JPL from radar data processing
to the quest of black holes.
Stratalux is a leader in building and managing tailored cloud solutions
for customers of all sizes. “A common request we see from both our large
and small customers is the need to support high performance database
applications. Throughput consistency is critical for these workloads,”
said Jeremy Przygode, CEO at Stratalux. “Based on positive results in
our early testing, the combination of EBS Provisioned IOPS and
EBS-Optimized instances will enable our customers to consistently scale
their database applications to thousands of IOPS, enabling us to
increase the number of I/O intensive workloads we support.”
Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes are currently available in the
US-East (N. Virginia), US-West (N. California), US-West (Oregon),
EU-West (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Japan)
regions with additional Region launches coming soon.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key
infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now
widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud
computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and
turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no
longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or
months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's
expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business
needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon
Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands
of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190
countries around the world. AWS offers over 28 different services,
including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center
locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most
compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced
electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright
sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an
easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages,
search, shop, and take notes - still with all the benefits of the most
advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line
e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch,
with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the
Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and
web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud,
Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon's new revolutionary cloud-accelerated
web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core
processor.
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Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
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