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Amazon Web Services With SSD Option for Elastic Block Store

Available in the US, Ireland, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Sao Paulo

Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the availability of a SSD-backed volume type for its Elastic Block Store (EBS)that delivers high-performance storage at a low cost.

Designed for five nines of availability, General Purpose (SSD) volumes are engineered to provide predictable performance for a range of workloads, including personal productivity, small to medium-sized databases, test and development environments, and boot volumes. General Purpose (SSD) volumes provide the ability to burst to 3,000 IO/s per volume, independent of volume size, to meet the performance needs of most applications and also deliver a consistent baseline of three IO/s per gigabyte. Customers only pay for the storage they provision, with no additional charges for I/O, and prices start at $0.10/GB.

Customers can choose between three EBS volume types to best meet the needs of their workloads: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IO/s (SSD), and Magnetic volumes.

  • The General Purpose (SSD) volumes are designed to support the majority of persistent storage workloads and are the default EBS volume.

  • Provisioned IO/s (SSD) volumes are designed for I/O-intensive applications such as large relational or NoSQL databases where performance consistency and low latency are critical. With Provisioned IO/s (SSD) volumes, customers choose the amount of IO/s they require, up to 48,000 IO/s per Amazon EC2 instance, and they only have to provision and pay for the storage they need.

  • Magnetic volumes, formerly known as Standard volumes, provide the lowest cost per gigabyte of all Amazon EBS volume types and are ideal for workloads where data is accessed less often and the absolute lowest storage cost is paramount.

Customers have been using Amazon EBS since 2008 to run their most demanding applications and databases on AWS. We continue to iterate on the service to support the evolving needs of our customers,” said Peter De Santis, VP, compute, Amazon Web Services. “In 2012, we introduced Amazon EBS Provisioned IO/s volumes, providing custoers with access to SSD technology for their most demanding workloads. With the introduction of EBS General Purpose (SSD) volumes today, SSD technology can now be applied to a much broader range of use cases at a lower cost while also delivering high IO/s, low latency, and high bandwidth.

Infor is a provider of enterprise software, with more than 70,000 customers worldwide. “Using AWS, Infor is able to reduce upfront capital expenditure for our customers and speed their time to value by quickly deploying our software in the cloud,” said Brian Rose, SVP, Infor Labs. “After experiencing high performance with Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD) volumes during the beta, we’re able to achieve higher baseline I/O performance and to support periodic spikes in the application workload that deliver a consistent experience to service the high expectations of our enterprise users.

MongoLab is a managed MongoDB database service that powers over 100,000 databases worldwide. “Our business requires us to maintain databases that require many thousands of IO/s to meet our customers’ performance needs,” said Will Shulman, CEO, MongoLab. “In testing, Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD) volumes have proven that they can provide the high performance that our customers need while simultaneously offering exceptional price/performance. The burst capabilities are impressive and great for bulk data loads and exports. Once we roll these out we think that our customers will be very pleased with the improvements to throughput and latency across our product-lines.

Acquia, Inc. provides digital engagement solutions that equip businesses for success. “We are very impressed with the performance improvements we saw from the Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD) storage after participating in the beta,” said Andrew Kenney, VP, Platform Engineering at Acquia. “With these new volume types we can greatly improve application load times and reliability and we’re excited to be able to offer this option to our customers.

Bracket Computing Inc. has developed a software-based service that re-imagines enterprise computing. “Today we use Amazon EBS Magnetic volumes for our service’s build infrastructure, but keeping pace with new technologies is key for us,” said Rob Enns, VP, Engineering at Bracket Computing. “So, when we were offered the opportunity to use Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD) volumes as part of the beta, we jumped at it. We’re really impressed with the I/O performance. These new Amazon EBS volume types are already cutting workload runtimes by nearly half.

Customers can launch General Purpose (SSD) volumes using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. General Purpose (SSD) volumes are available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), AsiaPac (Singapore), AsiaPac (Sydney), AsiaPac (Tokyo), and Brazil (Sao Paulo) Regions.

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