io2 volumes running on next-generation Block
Express architecture deliver the first storage area network (SAN)
built for the cloud to meet the performance requirements of
customers' most I/O-intensive, business-critical applications
Epic Systems, Amway, and Okta among customers
using Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc.
company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of
Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes, delivering SAN capabilities
in the cloud for the first time. EBS Block Express is a
next-generation storage server architecture that provides the
highest block storage performance without the cost or hassle of
having to procure, scale, and maintain expensive on-premises SANs.
With io2 volumes running on Block Express, customers can achieve
sub-millisecond latency and provision a single io2 volume with up
to 256,000 IOPS, 4,000 MB/second throughput, and 64 TB of
capacity—a 4x increase in performance, throughput, and capacity for
existing io2 volumes. io2 Block Express volumes are ideal for the
largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Oracle
databases, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, InterSystems database,
and SAS Analytics. There are no upfront commitments or fees to use
io2 Block Express volumes, and customers pay only for the storage
capacity used. To get started with io2 Block Express volumes,
visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/provisioned-iops/.
Customers choose io2 volumes (the latest generation of
provisioned IOPS volumes) to run their critical,
performance-intensive applications because io2 volumes are designed
for 99.999% (five 9s) durability and 4x more IOPS than general
purpose EBS volumes. Some applications require even higher IOPS,
throughput, and capacity with lower latency than offered by a
single io2 volume. To address the needed performance, customers
often stripe multiple io2 volumes together, but the most demanding
applications require more io2 volumes to be striped together than
customers want to manage. For these highly demanding applications,
many customers have historically used on-premises SANs (a set of
disks accessed over the local network). However, SANs have numerous
drawbacks. They are expensive due to high upfront acquisition
costs, require complex forecasting to ensure sufficient capacity,
are complicated and hard to manage, and consume valuable data
center space and networking capacity. When a customer exceeds the
capacity of a SAN, they have to buy another entire SAN, which
requires even more upfront cost and forces customers to pay for
unused capacity. Customers want the power of a SAN in the cloud,
which hasn’t existed—until now.
io2 Block Express volumes reinvent block storage and give
customers the performance they expect from a SAN, but with the
elasticity of AWS, unlimited scale, and flexibility of
pay-as-you-go pricing—at as low as half the cost of a typical SAN.
io2 Block Express volumes are designed for applications that
benefit from high-volume IOPS, high throughput, high durability,
high storage capacity, and low latency. For example, using Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R5b instances and io2 Block
Express volumes, SQL Server runs up to 3x faster on AWS than the
next fastest cloud provider. Customers can also stripe multiple io2
Block Express volumes together to get even better performance than
a single volume can provide. Block Express helps io2 volumes
achieve this performance by completely reinventing the underlying
EBS hardware, software, and networking stacks. By decoupling the
compute from the storage at the hardware layer and rewriting the
software to take advantage of this decoupling, Block Express
enables new levels of performance and reduces time to innovation.
By also rewriting the networking stack to take advantage of the
high-performance Scalable Reliable Datagrams (SRD) networking
protocol, Block Express dramatically reduces latency. io2 Block
Express volumes are available at the same price as io2 volumes and
with no upfront commitments to use the volumes. These improvements
allow customers to provision and scale capacity without the high
upfront costs and idle capacity that is typical of a SAN.
“For decades, customers who wanted to get the most performance
for their throughput-intensive workloads were forced to use an
on-premises SAN, which is not only expensive, but also complicated
and resource intensive to manage,” said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec,
Vice President, Storage, at AWS. “io2 Block Express volumes are a
game changer. Customers can scale their capacity by petabytes in
minutes at as low as half the cost of a typical SAN, and the
storage is managed by AWS with the same or better performance of
many leading SAN storage products, and without the hassle of
procuring, scaling, and maintaining an on-premises SAN.”
EBS io2 Block Express volumes are generally available today with
many important SAN features, including Multi-Attach and Elastic
Volumes. In the coming months, support for additional SAN features,
including Fast Snapshot Restore, will be added. io2 Block Express
volumes are available with R5b instances, the Amazon EC2 instance
with the highest EBS bandwidth, in all regions where AWS offers R5b
instances today: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West
(Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and
Europe (Frankfurt). In the coming months, support for additional
EC2 instance types and regions will be added.
Epic Systems is a global leader in electronic health record
software. “With the combination of io2 Block Express and the AWS
R5b instance, we've observed a scalability improvement of 125% when
compared to the previous single database configuration in AWS,”
said Doug Hernandez, Server Systems Engineer, at Epic Systems. “For
the first time our customers have the ability to scale further by
scaling out their operational database architecture using
InterSystem's Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP) in a public
cloud.”
Amway is the world’s largest direct selling company,
manufacturing and distributing nutrition, beauty, personal care,
and home products—which are exclusively sold in 100 countries
through Amway Independent Business Owners. “We run an Oracle
database-based application, where high performance is absolutely
critical for our customers during our peak month end processing
windows. It’s currently running on dedicated compute, network, and
VMAX storage, where transaction throughput depends on extremely low
write latency,” said Lee Beyer, Technical Lead, at Amway. “A
complete re-architecture is not possible for us, but we want to be
able to take advantage of scalable infrastructure during peak
processing windows and enable global deployments. With the
performance of io2 Block Express volumes, we expect to meet our
transaction throughput and write latency requirements, allowing us
to take advantage of a more elastic scalable infrastructure,
setting the stage for future modernization on cloud native
services.”
Okta is the leading independent provider of identity on a
mission to bring simple and secure access to people and
organizations everywhere. “At Okta we leverage MySQL as the backend
storage for our main application and several microservices. As
demand on our data store grows, so does the need for more
throughput, IOPS, and data storage. Currently getting around the
limitation of disk size and throughput per volume means striping
several volumes together which unfortunately adds complexity to our
setup,” said Darren Cassar, Senior Manager, Site Reliability
Engineering, at Okta. “We are excited to test out io2 Block Express
volumes since its max volume size of 64 TB combined with increased
throughput per volume of 4000 MB/second is a large improvement from
the previous max size of 16 TB and 1000 MB/second and should allow
us to reduce our volume management overhead.”
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