Questions tagged [provisioned-iops]
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Increase Provisioned IOPS in RDS leads to downtime?
We have an m4.2x large RDS Postgres instance, with 300 GB storage and 1000 Provisioned IOPS.
We want to increase the PIOPS to 2000, will there be a downtime involved?
If the performance will be downgraded, is there a measure by how much?
I could…

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How to configure an IOPS type EBS after attachment on Amazon AWS?
Once I have created an EBS of IOPS type and attached to an EC2 volume, is there a way to change its settings such as storage and IOPS? I am fine detaching it and making changes. Obviously I want to retain data.
I am looking for an answer…

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How to measure IOPS for a command in linux?
I'm working on a simulation model, where I want to determine when the storage IOPS capacity becomes a bottleneck (e.g. and HDD has ~150 IOPS, while an SSD can have 150,000). So I'm trying to come up with a way to benchmark IOPS in a command (git)…

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RDS IOPS limits
As I understand it General Purpose SSD's on an RDS instance have an IOPS limit based on the disk size until you get to 1TB when you can infinitely burst at 3000 IOPS.
Once you have a 1TB disk you can burst continuously at 3000 but I can't find any…

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Do we need Provisioned IOPS for RDS instance that's using 60 IOPS according to monitoring?
We have PostgreSQL instance serving tens of r/w queries per second.
Instance type: db.m3.2xlarge
Instance Provisioned IOPS (SSD): 1000
Instance storage size: 100GB , Database size is about 5-10GB.
It is serving 100s of simultaneous clients with…

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Does detaching EC2 Volume save cost
I just got hit with a large EC2 bill while I didn't have more than one machines running.
After investigating my bill in a bit more detailed I saw that we were paying $1100 per month for provisioned IOPS. This turned out to be caused by 10 volumes of…

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Are Amazon's Provisioned IOPS a hard limit or guaranteed minimum?
Are Provisioned IOPS a hard limit? Could IO spikes exceed the number of provisioned IOPS?
I couldn't easily find a definitive answer on the question. While I pretty much assume that it's enforced as a hard limit the documentation isn't very…

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Do Larger EBS Volumes Require more IOPS?
I recently resized the root EBS volume on an EC2 instance.
I changed it from: gp2 120GB and 360 IOPS to: io2 512GB and 1000 IOPS
I was reading documentation about gp2 and they say that they give you 3 IOPS per GB which is why when I had 120 GB it…

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Understanding IOPS and IOPS Burst
Ok so I am going through A Cloud Guru's course for the solutions architect associate and I am having trouble understanding what IOP burst are. Here are the notes from the course:
EBS Volume Types
General Purpose SSD (GP2)
General purpose,…

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Glusterfs Gett Attribute IOPS Caching
I'm building a GlusterFS share for a heavy Get Attribute workload.
This cluster is configured in "Replicated fashion" and needs to host several TB of data.
In this scenario the largest part of request from clients is of type "Get Attribute" ( eg.…

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RDS Provisioned IOPS got limitation?
I originally have my MySQL setting to 500 GB and 5000 IOPS. It has a write IOPS limit to 3500.
Later on, in order to boost the IOPS performance, I decided to upgrade the MySQL setting to 1.2 TB with 12000 Provisioned IOPS. However, it seems I am…

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Kubernetes - Monitoring pod IO
I would like to monitor the IO which my pod is doing. Using commands like 'kubectl top pods/nodes', i can monitor CPU & Memory. But I am not sure how to monitor IO which my pod is doing, especially disk IO.
Any suggestions ?

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AWS RDS Postgres - Is lower provisioned IOPS better than higher baseline IOPS? (5K P-IOPS vs 5TB gp2 storage)
We have a Postgres running with a 5TB storage.
And we have provisioned 5K IOPS.
But, after reading the AWS documentation we found that storage with 5TB has more than 15K baseline IOPS. And also cheaper.
Now I'm confused.
Is lower provisioned IOPS…

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Clarification needed about EBS-optimized, IOPS and Throughput
I'm studying the Amazon EBS–optimized instances document trying to apply it to a specific scenario.
I'm using a c6a.2xlarge instance with a single gp3 volume (2 TB) attached. According to the document the c6a.2xlarge instance is listed as one of…

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AWS Recommended Provisioned IOPS SSD (IO1) size for EBS
I understand that IOPS improves performance and therefore, I want to use it for my SQL Server Standard 2014 EC2 instance.
I have a Volume of 400GB and now wondering how much IOPS should I use. Previous month I used about 15,000 IOPS and got a huge…

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