Benchmarking Amazon EBS Volumes

In this lab, you will test the performance of different Amazon EBS volumes by simulating application I/O workloads using industry standard benchmarking tools (e.g. Flexible IO Tester or FIO) for Linux. You will then use CloudWatch to monitor and compare EBS volume performance.

Level

Advanced

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Test the performance of different Amazon EBS volumes using FIO (Flexible IO Tester)
• Use CloudWatch to monitor the performance of different EBS volume types
• Use disk striping to optimize the performance of your Amazon EBS volumes
• Evaluate the volume types most suitable for your application workloads

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

• Infrastructure Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiarity with the AWS Management Console
• Basic knowledge of Amazon Elastic Block Store
• Understanding of different volume types such as SSD and HDD
• Understanding of different storage performance parameters like Throughput, IOPS, IO size, IO Latency, and Bandwidth

Course Outline

• Task 1: Explore your environment
• Task 2: Connect to the EC2 Instance and Install FIO
• Task 3: Make Amazon EBS volumes available for use on Linux
• Task 4: Benchmarking your Volumes
• Task 5: Use CloudWatch to review Throughput and IOPS performance
• Task 6: Optimize the performance of your Data volume through disk striping